Greetings,
Pursuing EAc6, Option 1, for office building registered as C&S for LEED certification, the following issue is kind of not clear to me:
Normally, when a building type is Core and Shell, the idea is the tenents of this building to be able to complete its Fit-Outs as per their needs.
Following the above, could the terms Core & Shell and Tenant areas be considered as identical for the purpose of Design Energy Cost calculation?
Your support is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Vassil Vassilev
ManagerTermoservice
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November 30, 2021 - 11:10 am
Greetings,
By mistake in my question in the previous question I've mentioned C&S and Tenants.
The questions is to be: Could Shell and Tenants area be considered as identical ...?
Thanks
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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December 1, 2021 - 1:32 pm
For some C&S projects there is no building area that is core, it is all tenant space. In those cases the 15% requirement within the credit language kicks in for the green power purchase.
Vassil Vassilev
ManagerTermoservice
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December 2, 2021 - 1:32 am
Marcus, thanks a lot for your answer.
I was following also the same logic, just the 15% requirement seemed kind of strange for me.
This is because the project I'm working on has a tenant space of 56% of the total GFA.
Hope that this is not something unusual, but who knows....
Thanks.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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December 2, 2021 - 10:19 am
Seems pretty high and I have no idea if it unusual of not. In your case, since the core area is greater than 15%, you would use the actual core area. I suppose you could just use 43% of energy use or you could create the model so that the core space is on a separate meter within the model.