Bike parking assessments

Companies today are spending serious money on bike parking and support services for riders. Some are fitting out new buildings in a way that meets the criteria set by the Green Building Council of Australia to achieve Green Star ratings. Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating system that evaluates the environmental design and construction of buildings and, with 11 per cent of Australia's CBD commercial office buildings Green Star certified, building green is now a business imperative. Green Star was developed for the property industry in order to:
* Establish a common language;
* Set a standard of measurement for green buildings;
* Promote integrated, whole-building design;
* Recognise environmental leadership;
* Identify building life-cycle impacts; and
* Raise awareness of green building benefits.

Green Building Council rating

The GBC rating tool offers three points 'To encourage and recognise developments that facilitate the use of bicycles by occupants and visitors.' One point is awarded for each of the following:

- secure bicycle storage for 5% of building staff based on one person per 15m2 of the net leaseable area (NLA)
- accessible showers based on one per 10 bicycle spaces provided

An additional point is awarded where the requirements for either one or two points have been met; and visitor bicycle parking is provided and meets the criteria of one space per 750m2 NLA or part thereof, that is provided in an accessible location.

These broad categories are described in more detail in the technical manual for those seeking to earn the three points. For example the technical manual says that 'Railings, lampposts and other non-purposeful bike parking facilities do not comply' with the rating for visitor parking.
 

Feedback

Feedback from riders using bike parking that has been awarded three points has varied. Some of the bike parking is excellent and some has been criticised by riders. We aim through these online assessments to provide feedback to the Green Building Council on workplace bike parking.

From this feedback we will be able to recommend changes to the technical manual as well as provide more detailed advice to the GBC and anyone upgrading, installing or retrofitting bicycle parking facilities.

Our categories

We have broken up the workplace bicycle parking system into the following categories:

• Approach
• The Structure
• Access and security
• Useability
• Amenities
• Location

The tool will tell us which are the most important factors and where investment and design attention should be focused.

Please use the tool and give us feedback about your workplace and about the tool.

 

 

 

Workplace Assessments

There are two ways to assess the parking at your workplace

1. Workplace bike parking inventory

This is a 50 question survey to be filled out by one person at the workplace - usually the Ride to Work workplace coordinator. The survey asks detailed questions about the number of parking spaces, type of door lock and associated costs. We only need one of these from each workplace.

2. Rider workplace bike parking assessment

This is a 15 question survey to be filled out by all the riders who use the bike parking facilities. It asks each user to assess the six categories of approach, structure, access and security, useability, amenities, location and then provide an overall assessment.

When we have an adequate sample from a workplace we will put the two together to profile your workplace and send the results to the workplace coordinator.

Your workplace

You can use the links above to give feedback on the bike parking at your workplace.  We will then sort your results out from everybody elses. 

However if you would like your own stand alone survey, contact us and we will provide you with a link that will be exclusive for your company. A stand alone survey will enable us to provide you with a good looking pdf report, which you can show others at your workplace.

If you would like to insert your organisation's logo in the stand alone survey.

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