Pearl Building Rating System - Estidama

LBo-8: Preferred Car Parking Spaces
Intent To encourage car sharing and more fuel-efficient forms of personal transport.
Credit
Requirements
Awarding Credit
Points
Credit
Submission:
Design Rating
Credit
Submission:
Construction
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Calculations and
Methodology
GENERAL
References None
6% of parking spaces provided must be identified for the sole use of priority vehicles
(electric vehicles, gas vehicles and hybrids or those forming part of a defined and
approved car-sharing scheme or car club).
The spaces must be optimally located for building access and half of the spaces must be
supplied with vehicle charging points.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT/CLARIFICATIONS
A mechanism of enforcement of the above restrictions must be implemented to ensure
that access to the priority spaces is safeguarded for priority vehicles.
CREDIT POINTS REQUIREMENTS
1
(maximum)
1
1
(maximum)
1
Design Rating
Design Preferred Parking Spaces complying with the Credit
Requirements.
Construction Rating
Provide Preferred Parking Spaces complying with the Credit
Requirements.
� Floor plans showing locations of all Preferred Parking Spaces and charging points;
� Extracts from specifications indicating provision of suitable charging points and
electrical system capable of supplying the required charging load; and
� Evidence of an enforcement scheme.
� As-built floor plans showing locations of all Preferred Parking Spaces and charging
points;
� Photos of typical Preferred Parking Spaces indicating location and signage;
� As-built mechanical drawings indicating provision of suitable charging points and
electrical system capable of supplying the required charging load; and
� Evidence of an enforcement scheme.
The means of enforcing the preferred use of priority parking spaces is at the discretion
of the building user/operator but evidence of a robust strategy will be expected to be
demonstrated.
Preferred Car Parking Spaces are spaces specifically:
� for electric vehicles, gas vehicles and hybrids or those forming part of a defined
and approved car-sharing scheme or car club;
� supplied with vehicle charging points; and
� are optimally located for the building access.
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