Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0

Inquiry

We are in a process of designing a 250,000 s.f. largely subterranean facility for the Pentagon, of which approximately 200,000 s.f. will be renovated existing structure projecting from the north face of the Pentagon, under a raised terrace. The roof structure of the existing portion of the building supports a large parking deck for high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and although the team is tasked with waterproofing the existing roof parking, the area is NOT open for modification or design improvements. The program calls for replacing exactly the number of parking spaces and they will not serve any users of the new facility. Therefore we consider this a rehabilitation effort and would like to exclude it from calculations of parking capacity for the project. The new facility includes a separate parking area providing space for six cars, which exceeds minimum local zoning, considering that proposed occupancy of the facility is +/- 2,000. Please confirm that our assumption is correct. Your ruling on the existing parking lot issue will affect other points that are listed for SS Credit 7.2.