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CS-2009 WEp1: Water Use Reduction
Regarding the documentation to demonstrate the sanitary fixtures flow rate, can we submit a test report conducted on-site which can demonstrate the exact flow rate of the sanitary fixtures in our project building, instead of submitting the manufacturers’ data? Some of our sanitary fixtures do not have the product information sheets provided by the manufacturers.
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 19, 2011 - 9:18 pm
Caroline, yes, that should be sufficient. That is a common approach in LEED-EBOM.
Nadia Ayala
Architect / LEED AP BD+CKILTIK Consultoría
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February 20, 2012 - 12:39 pm
Caroline, how did you go with this? I just had a reply from a reviewer telling me that on-site measurements demonstrating actual flow rates do not comply with the prerequisite.
(We uploaded some cut-sheets with values that are much higher than the ones reported by on-site measurement, but at the end of the day, the actual values are the ones that we had measured).
Tristan, do you know about a certain format that would be approved by the reviewer?
Do you think a measurement performed by the commissioning agent with its report would be sufficient?
Thank you for your quick response.