Our project is a garment factory building with no conditioned area, having majority floor area as production unit which is mechanically ventilated. The office & meeting areas in the whole building is less than 5% of the total floor area, which is also unconditioned (No heating or cooling equipment) and only mechanically ventilated. My query is can I simulate the whole building without any conditioned area, modeling ventilation fans & process load identically in both base case and proposed case and claiming energy savings only in the lighting system.
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5907 thumbs up
May 7, 2018 - 10:56 am
Yes you can.
Melissa Merryweather
DirectorGreen Consult-Asia
245 thumbs up
May 7, 2018 - 1:42 pm
The problem will be getting the required savings since the garment production equipment will have such a high load in comparison with the building (ventilation and lighting) equipment.