EQ Prerequisite 2: Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control
Required
Intent
Minimize exposure of building occupants, indoor surfaces, and
ventilation air distribution systems to Environmental
Tobacco Smoke (ETS).
Requirements
OPTION 1
- Prohibit smoking in the building.
- Locate any exterior designated smoking areas at least 25 feet away
from entries, outdoor air intakes and operable
windows.
OR
OPTION 2
- Prohibit smoking in the building except in designated smoking
areas.
- Locate any exterior designated smoking areas at least 25 feet away
from entries, outdoor air intakes and operable
windows.
- Locate designated smoking rooms to effectively contain, capture
and remove ETS from the building. At a
minimum, the smoking room must be directly exhausted to the outdoors
with no re-circulation of ETS-containing
air to the non-smoking area of the building, and enclosed with
impermeable deck-to-deck partitions.
With the doors to the smoking room closed, operate exhaust
sufficient to create a negative pressure with
respect to the adjacent spaces of at least an average of 5 Pa (0.02
inches of water gauge) and with a minimum
of 1 Pa (0.004 inches of water gauge).
- Performance of the smoking room differential air pressures shall
be verified by conducting 15 minutes of
measurement, with a minimum of one measurement every 10 seconds, of
the differential pressure in the
smoking room with respect to each adjacent area and in each adjacent
vertical chase with the doors to the
smoking room closed. The testing will be conducted with each space
configured for worst case conditions
of transport of air from the smoking rooms to adjacent spaces with
the smoking rooms’ doors closed to the
adjacent spaces.
OR
OPTION 3 (For residential buildings only)
- Prohibit smoking in all common areas of the building.
- Locate any exterior designated smoking areas at least 25 feet away
from entries, outdoor air intakes and operable
windows opening to common areas.
- Minimize uncontrolled pathways for ETS transfer between individual
residential units by sealing penetrations
in walls, ceilings and floors in the residential units, and by
sealing vertical chases adjacent to the units.
- All doors in the residential units leading to common hallways
shall be weather-stripped to minimize air leakage
into the hallway.
- If the common hallways are pressurized with respect to the
residential units then doors in the residential units
leading to the common hallways need not be weather-stripped provided
that the positive differential pressure
is demonstrated as in Option 2 above, considering the residential
unit as the smoking room. Acceptable
sealing of residential units shall be demonstrated by a blower door
test conducted in accordance with ANSI/
ASTM-E779-03, Standard Test Method for Determining Air Leakage Rate
By Fan Pressurization, AND use
the progressive sampling methodology defined in Chapter 4
(Compliance Through Quality Construction)
of the Residential Manual for Compliance with California’s 2001
Energy Efficiency Standards (www.energy.
ca.gov/title24/residential_manual). Residential units must
demonstrate less than 1.25 square inches leakage
area per 100 square feet of enclosure area (i.e. sum of all wall,
ceiling and floor areas).
Potential Technologies & Strategies
Prohibit smoking in commercial buildings or effectively control the
ventilation air in smoking rooms. For residential
buildings, prohibit smoking in common areas, design building
envelope and systems to minimize ETS
transfer among dwelling units. |
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