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NC-2009 IEQc1:Outdoor Air Delivery Monitoring

Classification of a room as "densly occupied"

Hi, We have a project, where there are large directors' offices. In general, only one person will be working there, but there will be tables with 6 chairs, so let's say additional 6 people can be in this office for some time during the day, from time to time. The office is private office, it is not a meeting room. If we divide 7 people over the area of the room - we come into "densly occupied space". We have CAV system there and the amount of fresh air is calculated based on the 7 people in the room, so even if we have only 1 director in the office, there is a lot of fresh air provided. The system is 100% OA. Should we provide the CO2 sensors there and treat the space as "densly occupied"? Many thanks !

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Fri, 04/11/2014 - 12:00

Agata, since the zone population is defined in AHRAE 62.1-2007 addendum as the number of people expected to occupy the space under normal circumstances, I would say that the population is 1 and non-densely occupied. You may want to use a reset strategy to save energy on unnecessary OA (sized for 7 people) but that is not applicable to this credit.

Wed, 04/23/2014 - 09:15

Thanks Andrew!

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