Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

For one of the auxiliary renovation projects at the Pentagon we seek to achieve Site Credit 4.4 by providing no new parking and providing carpool spaces for 5% of FTE building occupants. Our questions are as follows:\n\nFirst, as we only have carpool spaces in existing parking spaces which are not considered to be within our LEED project site boundary but which are part of the overall Pentagon campus parking facilities, it is our understanding from the past Credit Rulings that we may do so without including the parking areas within our other calculations for LEED Credit compliance--please confirm this understanding. The closest carpool spots to our project are in the Pentagon\'s North Parking lot with a walk to the front door of roughly 1050 feet. These are some of the closest spots available to this project and to main Pentagon building itself.\n\nSecond, the carpool spots that exist are currently designated with signage as reserved for carpool use, however the signage does not currently designate them as serving one Pentagon facility or another. Rather, they are designated as carpool spaces serving the entire Pentagon facility, which is what the Pentagon prefers. As there are multiple Pentagon Renovation facilities and phases seeking LEED Certification, this is both a campus-wide issue and an individual LEED project issue. Any designated carpool space counted for this particular project would not be counted for the same credit for a different project (i.e., we would ensure the same parking spaces weren\'t double counted). In order to demonstrate compliance with the carpooling requirement for this project (and, presumably, the others), would we need to designate specific spaces to specific projects or merely demonstrate that the number of carpooling spaces is sufficient to serve our project. Would we need to demonstrate with a campus-wide calculation that the number of carpool spaces provided serve 5% of the FTE occupants of the entire campus?