FTE for Parking Garage project
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I know a parking garage may not be considered the most ideal type of building to certify under the LEED rating systems....
The town in which one of our Hospitals resides is mandating that I build a new garage. To that end, I am looking to certify the building. How do I calculate the FTEs? Would I calculate the number of cars and consider the drivers transients? Would it just be the security folk in the building?
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Need 1 FTE to meet Minimum Program Requirements (MPRs)
Neil, it seems like the main consideration here is that you need at least one FTEFull-time equivalent (FTE) represents a regular building occupant who spends 8 hours a day (40 hours a week) in the project building. Part-time or overtime occupants have FTE values based on their hours per day divided by 8 (or hours per week divided by 40). Transient Occupants can be reported as either daily totals or as part of the FTE. Residential occupancy should be estimated based on the number and size of units. Core and Shell projects should refer to the default occupancy table in the Reference Guide appendix. All occupant assumptions must be consistent across all credits in all categories. (on an annualized average basis) to qualify a building for LEED-NC, according to the Minimum Program Requirements. If you have less than one FTE, you can still do LEED but you can't earn any IEQ credits (but you must still earn the IEQ prereqs).
Sounds like you can do that with security people, and count drivers as transients.
Thanks. BTW, can less than 1 be zero?
I would say "yes" based on my reading of the Minimum Program Requirements. But be sure to review them yourself and double-check with GBCI if you're not sure.
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