Hello all,
I am working on a large Core and Shell project composed of office spaces and commercial centre (in France). The commercial centre is 5 stories high and occupied by one single tenant. The goal is to limit the number of sub-meters installed in the commercial centre.
The building has the following as energy supply:
1) District Heating System for Space Heating & Domestic Hot Water
2) District Cooling System for Air conditioning cooling
3) Electricity for external lighting, Cooling Electronic Fan coils, Cold storage plant, Fans / Ventilation (major), Lighting, Small Power, Outlets, elevators, escalators etc....
Can you confirm that we only need to meter the tenant electricity in order for this credit? Does that mean we only need one electrical sub-meter with a connection the BMS or does each department / use need to be connected directly to the BMS?
thank-you,
Ian
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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June 4, 2014 - 7:52 pm
The building electrical system needs to have the capacity to submeter energy use by fuel use for each tenant. If the building could be split between multiple tenants in the future the system should have the capacity to be submetered. f you only have one tenant you only need to install one set of meters for each fuel.