Hi! Our project is currently meeting 49.95% reduction on indoor water use. Does anyone have any experience about whether it is possible to round this up to 50% for the maximum of 6 points? I was not able to find anything about rounding within the guides or on this forum.
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Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
LEEDuser Expert
494 thumbs up
November 29, 2022 - 4:56 pm
no official guidance on rounding in LEED, but i have lost this battle before.
from the number you list ... you are at less than 50% savings.
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
450 thumbs up
November 29, 2022 - 5:03 pm
Hey Nate!
You can round...down. I don't know of any prereq/credit where they allow us to round in our favor. I have had many, many close-but-not-close-enough calcs in projects before, and it's always frustrating. Bike racks, showers, and EVs, for example, always have to round up to the next whole number, even if it's 8.1...must round up to 9. For water and energy %s, they definitely do not allow rounding up.
Any chance you can tweak (and justify) the % of male occupants that uses urinals at the top(ish) of the calculator?
Maria Porter
Sustainability specialistSkanska Sweden
268 thumbs up
November 30, 2022 - 3:49 am
I have also lost that battle! (And the fact that they use more significant numbers than the in-data also anoys me sometimes. In other calculations).