Rating System

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

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - Schools 2007, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009

Inquiry

Our building is located on a 1,275-acre university campus among 79 buildings with dozens more in the planning stages. The university has 1,065 support staff, 750 faculty (or 1,435 FTE) and 23,464 peak-period transient students/visitors. Adequate bicycle storage can be easily provided for each building, but providing showers and changing rooms is our challenge. Based on the number of FTE\'s, eight showers would need to be distributed among each of the 79 buildings (see related AGMBC notes). The 200-yard distance maximum would not be possible to maintain for the eight showers required (based on 1,435 FTE\'s) distributed in zones among 79 buildings and therefore the number needed to comply with the requirement for each building would significantly increase by a factor of four times or more. This is not a feasible strategy for the university and also not a good use of resources. However, there are two centrally located facilities on campus with showers to which staff and faculty have unlimited access. The Indoor Recreation Facility has 12 shower heads in 4 areas and the Field House has 143 shower heads in 9 areas. These facilities are linked together with 5 free bus/shuttle lines that operate in 7 to 8 minute intervals between the hours of 7 am and 7 pm. This strategy is analogous to the compliance path for credit EAc4.1 Alternative Transportation: Public Transportation Access, which allows the use of shuttles to connect to primary bus and rail systems. Please confirm that the use of centrally located showers accessible by shuttles is an acceptable alternative to the 200-yard maximum.