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

1. In a health care building which contains both individual offices and exam rooms, can a VAV air terminal unit serve both an office space and an exam room (or multiple exam rooms) still be considered as an individual control for the occupant of the office space as long as the thermostat to control the terminal unit is located within the office. The thought is that the exam rooms are used throughout the day for a variety of patients and do not count as spaces housing building occupants with permanent workstations and therefore does not require individual comfort control (ie. non-regularly occupied space). 2. Unlike Version 2.1, the requirement for individual comfort control for 50% of building occupants does not appear to differentiate between perimeter and interior spaces. If perimeter offices of a building are each provided with an individual air terminal unit and thermostat such that each office has individual control, and the quantity of perimeter offices for the building is more than 50% of the building\'s total offices or workstations (interior and perimeter combined), can it be said that I have met the 50% requirement for the EQ 6.2 Credit? (Thermostat controls would also be provided for multi-occupant spaces such as conference rooms and lecture halls). 3. If two office spaces are served by one air terminal unit with the temperature controls located in only one of the two offices, is this considered to meet the 50% individual comfort control requirement? 4. The Reference Guide lists breakrooms as an example of a Shared Multi-Occupant Space in the text, but lists breakrooms as Non-Regularly Occupied Space in the definitions section. In the hospital setting, we would like to consider them as Non-Regularly Occupied Spaces. 5. Will a nurse station count as a shared multi-occupant space?