I'm working with a Community College that has numerous campuses in the Portland, Oregon area to submit IEQc3.6 as an ID credit for LEED NC. They already have a robust IPM plan, based on Oregon State requirements (ORS 634) . However, only a 24 hour universal notification is required by ORS for exterior applied products because the weather conditions change so rapidly. I am told that changing that to a 72-hour policy would be impractical, and lead to constantly changing plans to apply a product. Has anyone else experienced this roadblock before? Do you think it would fly to word the policy in such as way that 72-hours notification shall be given under favorable weather conditions, and a minimum of 24-hours notification shall be given when weather conditions are rapidly changing?
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Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
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January 23, 2014 - 9:47 am
Hi Heather,
This is an interesting situation that I haven’t come across before. I think one workaround could be to include this type of scenario (rapidly changing weather conditions that threaten the effectiveness of selected control strategies/products) under your definition of emergency condition. Then you’d be held to the requirement to give notification at least 24 hours after the application. My feeling is that if you then wanted to continue to follow the ORS requirements and give notification 24 hours ahead in this type of situation, that would still continue to meet the LEED universal notification requirements. I’d be curious to hear other people’s thoughts on this too.
Trista