We are working on a mall project going ahead with the LEED CS GOLD.We are currently on tender stage and the client has suddently come up with the LEED requirement. One of our competitors has also offered to provide the M&V service. The client wants us to provide a fee for this as well , but we reckon that this would not be a good idea to provide this service at this stage as we are very mature on the deisgn and almost going ahead with the tender. If we are suposed to go ahead with this credit, should we do it under Option B ? we do ahve BMS and sub metering and other ECM such as heat recovery and VFD's etc by default in the design. We need to finalize our fee regading this. Please advise .
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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June 2, 2013 - 10:57 am
Option B rarely works for new construction as there are usually several interactive energy efficiency measures like lighting and envelope improvements that are very difficult to isolate.
The total fee is typically a combination of writing the plan and implementing it post-occupancy. The biggest variable in time it takes to implement a particular plan depends on the data collection methods. If everything you need is submetered it usually takes far less time to gather the data, if not you will need to gather what you need by some means of direct measurement. Most project need to do a bit of both.