We are working on a CS naturally ventilated office Building. In the leed online form for this credit there is an option: "The space is an engineered natural ventilation system approved by the authority having jurisdiction(....)
The project site is located in Colombia, and this country does not have any authority with jurisdiction over ventilation standards or codes. In this case, does someone else can be considered an authority having jurisdiction? Who could this be?
Thanks for your help
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
April 22, 2011 - 7:12 pm
Is there any kind of building official or code official who could approve the plans?I don't know—this is not anticipated by LEED, clearly!
Biagio Arevalo
Management Consultant LEED AP BD+C, PMPGreen Building & LEED
25 thumbs up
May 3, 2011 - 11:45 am
The interpretation 62.1-2004-20 has a comment that says "The authority having jurisdiction is not limited to the local governing body/municipality”. There may be others.
http://www.ashrae.org/technology/page/127
The 62.1 User´s manual on the natural ventilation chapter explains that for exceptions to the prescriptive requirements, the burden is on the design professional
to engineer a naturally ventilated system that works.
I believe that in those cases the natural ventilation designer will be the authority, and to demonstrate it a graphic and numeric summary of the airflow analysis performed, including boundary conditions used for the analysis, simulation algorithm, solution variables, temperatures, airflow volumes and mean age of air for the spaces modeled must be uploaded as requested in the template.
Diego Prada
MScGreen Factory
45 thumbs up
May 3, 2011 - 1:40 pm
Biagio,
thank you very much for your comment, it was very useful.