We have a project that uses water cooled ice machine, but the coolant for the system is provided through a refrigerant through a closed loop system. The production for the ice maker also meets the production standards specified by Energy Star. Should this satisfy the prerequisite?
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emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
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July 25, 2019 - 1:38 pm
Hi Brendan,
I believe from your description that the closed loop system meets the requirements; depending on where your project is located, the Energy Star certification would be required if in the US, but could be equivalent to the standards outside the US if a certified product wasn't available.
Since this question was posted quite a while ago, please let us know if your project completed the review and what the outcome was.
Yarden Harari
CallisonRTKL Inc.2 thumbs up
July 1, 2024 - 2:59 pm
Hi All - follow on question to this thread. I have a project sourcing an icemaker that does not appear to have and Energy Star certification but it does have an IHRA certification. https://www.ahrinet.org/certification/energy-star based on this website it appears there are equivalencies, but I don't know if that means we are fine moving forward with the spec. I haven't found anything on the USGBC website. Would love any feedback / lessons learned.
thanks!
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
476 thumbs up
July 1, 2024 - 3:44 pm
Hi Yarden!
Hmm...I have not seen this particular alternative come up, but it does seem to have much more official equivalency to offer that an ice maker that doesn't have any certification at all but has the same specs. I'd normally say that in the US, it's always been Energy STAR or nada, but I think this one is worth an email to LEED Coach for review. I checked the v5 language to see if they'd changed anything, but it still has the same "Energy STAR or equivalent" text and no additional details for now.
Please report back if you do reach out!
Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
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July 1, 2024 - 4:07 pm
to my knowledge, this is the link that helps teams demonstrate equivalency with ES ice makers:
https://www.energystar.gov/products/commercial_food_service_equipment/co...
The equipment type / ice harvest rate will dictate the limits of kwh/100 lbs of ice and gal/100 lbs of ice.
if the non-ES ice maker does not exceed these limits, then i would guess that equivalency is demonstrated.