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Intent
To support energy efficiency efforts by monitoring and benchmarking energy use over time.
Requirements
Case 1. Single Family
Install whole-house electric and gas meters, as applicable.
Encourage homeowners or tenants to share energy usage data with USGBC via a USGBC-approved third-party by describing the benefits of participation in the Homeowner Education Manual.
Case 2. Multifamily
Install an electricity meter or submeter for each residential unit and a gas meter for the entire building, or a gas meter or sub-meter for each unit. Single room–occupancy units, transitional and temporary housing, and designated supportive housing buildings do not need an energy meter in each unit but must have a whole-building energy meter.
Encourage homeowners or tenants to share energy usage data with USGBC via a USGBC-approved third party by describing the benefits of participation in the Homeowner Education Manual.
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On each BD+C v4 credit, LEEDuser offers the wisdom of a team of architects, engineers, cost estimators, and LEED experts with hundreds of LEED projects between then. They analyzed the sustainable design strategies associated with each LEED credit, but also to assign actual costs to those strategies.
Our tab contains overall cost guidance, notes on what “soft costs” to expect, and a strategy-by-strategy breakdown of what to consider and what it might cost, in percentage premiums, actual costs, or both.
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© Copyright U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intent
To support energy efficiency efforts by monitoring and benchmarking energy use over time.
Requirements
Case 1. Single Family
Install whole-house electric and gas meters, as applicable.
Encourage homeowners or tenants to share energy usage data with USGBC via a USGBC-approved third-party by describing the benefits of participation in the Homeowner Education Manual.
Case 2. Multifamily
Install an electricity meter or submeter for each residential unit and a gas meter for the entire building, or a gas meter or sub-meter for each unit. Single room–occupancy units, transitional and temporary housing, and designated supportive housing buildings do not need an energy meter in each unit but must have a whole-building energy meter.
Encourage homeowners or tenants to share energy usage data with USGBC via a USGBC-approved third party by describing the benefits of participation in the Homeowner Education Manual.
