Rating System

LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0

Inquiry

Our project is a renovation of the third floor in a university medical laboratory building. Approximately 50 percent of our 16,438 sq ft project consists of laboratory space (i.e. lab benches, study carrels, microscope rooms, etc). The rest of the space contains restrooms, kitchen, storage, equipment space and office space (including designated offices and conference rooms). Study carrels are located along the NE window wall with lab benches extending into the room, perpendicular to the window wall. The laboratory lighting within 5\'- 0" of the windows, for the carrels, is on a daylight sensing system, as is the lighting for all other regularly occupied non-lab spaces with windows. The institutional research lab space lighting requirement is for a constant 80 footcandles average horizontal illuminance at the lab bench when in use. Therefore, the interior lab lighting, starting 6\'-0" from the windows, is not operated on the daylight sensing system but is controlled by the occupancy sensing system. Is this acceptable to meet LEED-CI EQc6.1?