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Extracted Content

  • Shipping and receiving office

    • Study carrel

    • Warehouse materials-handling area

Examples of nonregularly occupied spaces include the following:

  • Break room

  • Circulation space

  • Copy room

  • Corridor

  • Fire station apparatus bay

  • Hospital linen area

  • Hospital medical record area

  • Hospital patient room bathroom

  • Hospital short-term charting space

  • Hospital prep and cleanup area in surgical suite

  • Interrogation room

  • Lobby (except hotel lobby)*

  • Locker room

  • Residential bathroom

  • Residential laundry area

  • Residential walk-in closet

  • Restroom

  • Retail fitting area

  • Retail stock room

  • Shooting range

  • Stairway

*Hotel lobbies are considered regularly occupied because people often congregate, work on laptops, and spend more time there than they do in an office building lobby.

Table 1. Space types in EQ credits

Space CategoryPrerequisite or credit

Occupied space

Fundamental Air Quality
Enhanced Air Quality
Occupant Experience
Air Quality Testing and Monitoring
Regularly occupied space

Occupant Experience
Enhanced Air Quality
Resilient Spaces
Air Quality Testing and Monitoring
Quiet space

Occupant Experience

Classroom and core learning spaces

Occupant Experience

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