Our TI project is 4 floors of a large building, so
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Marcus Sheffer
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April 6, 2016 - 5:59 pm
Maybe. I would submit a project specific CIR.
My question is why would you want to do so? Whole building M&V is way more expensive to implement. If you do the submetering and arrange to pay your own utility bills you can get 5 points under Case 1 for this credit at a far lower cost assuming you were going to pay for the utilities no matter what (directly or indirectly).
Brightworks Sustainability
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April 11, 2016 - 3:42 pm
The project is not paying utility bills separately so we would only be eligible for 2 points under EAc3. The rest of the owner-occupied floors are developing an M&V plan so we figured the smaller project scope might be able to comply through this option if the M&V plan is expanded to include those floors.
Marcus Sheffer
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April 12, 2016 - 9:59 am
The time and effort to do so will be fairly costly when following Option D in the IPMVP. Writing and implementing a M&V Plan will require that their whole building energy model include all of the systems in your space. What you need to find out from USGBC is if they can do whole building M&V can it be counted for both project without separating the energy use from both projects? If not it gets more complicated. The model would have to be set up to separate their space and your space. You would likely need to submeter all of the significant energy ends uses in your space separately.
The cost of Option D M&V in general is too high to justify for most projects. The cost is both for the submetering which needs to be installed in the building and then implementing the M&V Plan post-occupancy. For most buildings the costs are typically in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Negotiate to pay the utility bills. It will be far cheaper and provide more value to the owner IMO.