I am working on a project whose majority of fixtures are LED. I am wondering what the LED equivalent to a lamp/blub is when documenting this credit. In this project, each fixture uses a number of LED strips (the number of "strips" varies per fixture). Would one LED "strip" count as one blub for documentation purposes?
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Alexa Stone
ecoPreserve: Building Sustainability134 thumbs up
October 29, 2011 - 5:08 pm
I am not sure as to why this is relevant. You don't have to include LEDs in the inventory and LEDs don't contain mercury, so the calculation of picogram per lumen hour per bulb wouldn't apply. Instead you would count them as zero picograms if you are purchasing during the performance period. Does anybody else see this differently?
Erin Holdenried
Sustainability Architect125 thumbs up
November 2, 2011 - 1:51 pm
The building is actually a major renovation project going for Low Mercury Lighting as an ID credit for a LEED NC certification. So there is no performance period. We are documenting all the new lights purchased, which includes the LED fixtures and the existing fixtures (that are mostly exterior pole lamps). We actually just got a response to an inquiry from GBCI stating the each LED "strip" would be considered one bulb.