<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What is in your opinion the baseline for the following building:</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Floor area:12,000 sqm (130,000 sqft)<br>Floors: 5 above grade, mostly conditioned. 5 underground parking, mostly unconditioned apart from some conditioned spaces in the first below grade floor.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Predominant Use: Office (85% of sqft),<br>Secondary use: bank in PB and below grade; Kitchen, below grade; control security room, below grade.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm in between baseline 6 or 8. If conditioned spaces below grade fall under exceptions to G3.1.1 b. then can I consider for the baseline that the predominant building has 5 floors instead of 6?</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks in advance.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Santiago.</font></p></div>