Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.1

Inquiry

Our project consists of a large mixed-use residential and retail building, including 240 residential units in two towers, 12 townhouses, and ground floor retail. We will provide walkoff mats at all tower and retail entryways, and any chemical mixing rooms will be designed to meet the EQc5 requirements. However, the marketing group feels that prospective owners of the townhouse units will not be excited about the prospect of permanent walkoff mats in front of their units: that they will want to select their own entryway mats, etc. Since the townhouses comprise less than 5 percent of the total occupancy of the building, we believe they don\'t fall within the definition of "high volume entryways" within the meaning of the EQc5 requirements. Please confirm that this assumption is correct.