Hi,

I have a central plant in 1 building that serves an adjacent building. It is part of the same development but because it is only connected by an unheated walkway the project is being submitted as a Group Project.

This means I need to report the energy for each of the buildings separately. As it is a central plant I don't see anyway you can do this in the software (VE IES) as you need to run both buildings on to get the load on the plant and therefore performance at any point. The ultimate energy is of the central plant not split per building.

The only other option is to use the central plant Option 1 where the proposed and baseline use the same plant efficiency. This doesn't really seem fair as both buildings are served by a new central plant created purely for the buildings which are being submitted under the same LEED certification, are there any exceptions to presenting the results for each building seperately?