According to Option 4: can I include in the assessment metal racks in a warehouse? Obviously, they are not a part of construction of the building, but because of its large quantity it seems reasnoable to iclude their impact.
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J Schütz
M.Sc.LCEE Life Cycle Engineering Experts GmbH
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December 22, 2020 - 8:13 am
Hi Agnieszka,
according to the v4 Step-by-step-Guidance "additional building elements, such as interior nonstructural walls or finishes, may be included", so I think you probably could include them, but do not need to.
If you do, you would increase the absolute environmental impacts of your baseline and your proposed building. As I understand it, the design decisions would then have to reduce the absolute environmental impacts more in order to achieve the required relative reductions. So, from an environmental perspective it´s reasonable to include them, for achieving the credit maybe not.
Agnieszka Kaczmarek
Energy Modeling SpecialistJW+A
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December 29, 2020 - 2:36 am
Thank you for your reply, the client asked if they could iclude them, so my answer will be yes.