Rating System

LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009

Inquiry

Tenant is relocating to a landmark San Francisco high-rise building with limited space for additional bicycle racks and storage. Building management policy is to allow tenants to take bicycles up to their floor via a service elevator through the basement garage since it can accommodate only about half of the necessary bike storage facilities in the garage (48 bike racks for approximately 1,800 total building employees). Since the same building has no showers, and it would be a physical and financial challenge to construct them within the tenant\'s space, the tenant will purchase basic club memberships at a physical fitness/health club offering lockers and showers located within 200 yards for all employees riding their bicycles to work. These memberships will be free to the employees. Documentation will consist of letters from building management and tenant confirming bike access and floor storage policies; copy of agreement with fitness/health club; and site map indicating physical distance from tenant\'s building entrance to the fitness/health club facility. We believe that this strategy will meet the intent of the credit by taking advantage of existing facilities and support policies without expending additional valuable construction resources.