Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED BD+C: Retail, LEED ID+C: Retail, LEED BD+C: Healthcare

Rating System Version

v3 - LEED 2009

Inquiry

The project team would like to exclude laboratory spaces from the list of regularly occupied spaces for the Daylighting and Views calculations. The laboratory spaces are separated from other building areas but efforts have been made to provide exterior views out of the lab spaces by providing fire rated windows around the lab into the surrounding hallways and drive aisle. The laboratory areas will be used solely for research and development purposes and for proprietary reasons & secrecy concerns of the areas, exterior windows have been specifically excluded from these rooms as they will be secure internal rooms being used by a very small percentage of the building occupants.