We are currently working on a industrial building where the owner has a plan to lease out the roof area for greenhouse food production. Should the process energy load for the greenhouse be included in the energy modeling? As of now, they plan to construct the greenhouse with the new building and the greenhouse design criteria (structural load, heating, electricity, etc.) are built into the building design, however, there is always a chance that the deal may not go through and the greenhouse will not get built.
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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September 24, 2013 - 3:34 pm
Ultimately you are required to model what gets built. So if the plans currently include the greenhouse it would need to be included in the models. If this is truly up in the air then you might want to defer the models until the construction review (assuming a split submission) and maybe it will be definitive by then. If you submit it in the design review phase and the green house does not happen you would be required to remove it in the construction review phase anyway.