Data center Lighting - Building area method

SAMY Chamy

Enginneer

T&T Green

LEEDuser Basic Member

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August 10, 2016

Dear All:- we are doing LEED NC project for data center which one is correct base case LPD for data center in building area method which lighting categories we take if we go with space by space method (For Server rooms) Kindly tell a specific categories in ASHRAE 90.1.2007 for both build area and space by space method

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Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

LEEDuser Expert

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Thu, 08/11/2016 - 14:17

Data centers were not well covered by 90.1-2007. None of the BAM facilities seem to apply. The closest I can see might be an equipment room in a manufacturing facility. You might also do some extrapolation from 90.1-2010. I think it covers data centers but the LPD values went down. So if you extrapolate some of the common areas to determine how much the LPD went down and then applied that to the data center values you may be able to justify that as a baseline.