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Cooling Towers vs Irrigation

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Tristan Roberts
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Vermont House of Representatives
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Wed, 05/12/2010 - 21:14

You do understand things correctly, and raise a good question. It's kind of like EQc4.3 in earlier versions of LEED-NC, where you could only earn the point if you used carpet, so in some cases teams were adding small areas of carpet just to earn the point. Not exactly productive.In that case, the credit was changed through a CIR and in LEED 2009. LEED-EBOM definitely has some kinks; maybe this issue will be revisited in 2012.

Wed, 05/19/2010 - 13:58

Another note on this...you can only earn the irrigation credits if you actually have some amount of vegetation on your site (something to irrigate). An absence of vegetation itself results in the same situation as with the cooling towers - the points are off the table.

Mon, 11/19/2012 - 06:08

Chilled water on our project is provided by a large (80,000 TonR) district cooling plant. Does this credit applies?

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