As per the LEED guide for residential or hospitality project blower test with ASTM-0779-03 is mandatory, but in our country there is no testing lab which do this type of testing. so can we do the pressure leakage testing describe in option2 for our hotel project instead of blower test.
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Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
LEEDuser Expert
657 thumbs up
August 16, 2010 - 10:53 am
Ashu,
A couple of thoughts:
1. The easiest thing if possible might just be to prohibit smoking throughout the building, and then you wouldn't need to bother with the blower door testing. Is that possible?
2. ASTM-0779-03, as I understand it, just outlines that method for conducting the blower door tests, and I would think that there's no reason you need a special lab to perform the tests. I think as long as you can get the equipment and have personnel with the appropriate skills you don't even need a third party to do the testing - I've heard of teams that got their building engineers equipped to perform the tests themselves. Maybe others can chime in on this??
Ashu Gupta
Project Engineer67 thumbs up
September 1, 2010 - 9:56 am
Jenny,
1. Its a five Star hospitality project, so smoking can not be prohibited in through out the building. Hotel has 20% smoking designated rooms. Other than these smoking is prohibited in all common areas.
2. Can you please tell us the procedure to perform this test or any alternate to achieve this prerequisite for hospitality project.
Thanks,
Ashu
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11474 thumbs up
September 1, 2010 - 10:00 am
Ashu, have you checked our Air Sealing Guidance for LEED-EBOM IEQp2? I think this will answer some of your questions.
Ashu Gupta
Project Engineer67 thumbs up
September 3, 2010 - 1:11 am
Tristan, I have checked these guidelines. I would like to know that is blower test necessary for hotels rooms also or only for residential units. In my country i could not found any blower test technician who perform this test easily. so can you please suggest ant alternate path to achieve this prerequisite.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11474 thumbs up
September 8, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Ashu, if you're not able to prohibit smoking or limit it to designated places, then that puts you in Option 2, Case 2, which requires blower door testing for both residential and hospitality. I don't know of a way around this. What is the obstacle you're having to blower-door testing? The testing units can be purchased and are not diffcult to use, as far as I know.