Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell, LEED O+M: Existing Buildings

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - Schools 2007, v2 - LEED 2.0, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2008

Inquiry

Our project is a full service automobile dealership that includes a single large open room designated as the Service Shop. The Service Shop is approx. 20, 000 sq. ft. This area is approx. 53 % of the total regularly occupied area 37,730 sq. ft. of the project per the Views Credit criteria. The area does not include desks or seating, but is the primary work station (locations) of several employees. The guidelines for the views credit compliance assumes a "42 inches (average seated height) sight line from a point at 42 inches above finish floor to the perimeter vision glazing" to determine compliance with the views credit. In the Service Shop area employees stand to perform their work responsibilities which is servicing cars. We would like to propose a line of site at "63 inches above finish floor to establish the sight line so that from a point at 63 inches above the finish floor to the perimeter vision glazing" can be used to determine compliance with the views credit requirements. The 63 inches above finish floor is derived from the average of the two values for an average standing male and female person per the human dimensions anthropometric data for adults found in the Architectural Graphic Standards, by Charles George Ramsey, 10th Ed., American Institute of Architects. The project team would like to establish a standing height line of sight for the Service Shop Area that allows us to locate vision glazing for the staff to access views and also comply with the views sight line requirement for this credit. Will the USGBC accept documentation that shows the "standing work area" in the service shop with a sight line located at 63 inches above finish floor to perimeter vision glazing to provide views for the building occupants?