This may be a silly question, but are fixtures attached to the garage considered building-mounted? The garage is separate from our LEED project but within the site boundary. Just wanting to see if my G3 fixture will meet the requirement for "all other luminaires" of if it has to be 2 mounting heights from the boundary. Thanks!
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Bill Swanson
Sr. Electrical EngineerIntegrated Design Solutions
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July 5, 2017 - 11:06 am
I don't see "building-mounted" defined anywhere. I think of it as façade mounted. "Building-mounted luminaires with the backlight oriented toward the building are exempt from the backlight rating requirement." Lights in an entrance canopy typically don't worry about backlight ratings so it sounds like anything building mounted as long as one side is towards your own building.
Now, by garage, I'm assuming parking garage with open sides. I'd call the lights inside of the garage as building mounted and anything on the top (open) level as similar to any parking lot light. It just makes the most sense that way.
By site boundary, do you mean LEED project boundary, or SSc6 lighting boundary? If the garage is inside of the project boundary, then the lights need to be shown to be compliant. If the garage is inside of the lighting boundary, but outside of the project boundary, you don't need to worry about the lights when documenting this credit.