Our company is in the process of determining whether a commercial interiors project is ideal for the EAc3 submetering option for Case 1. The tenant occupies the entire building, but only seventy-two percent (72%) of the space will be renovated and considered for LEED purposes. Given these circumstances, does Case 1 only require one (1) building-wide electric meter, one (1) building-wide process water meter, and another building-wide gas meter to comply? After looking through the template, the mention of submetering for each energy end use leads me to believe that they do need to be separated appropriately. It should also be noted that the tenant receives their heating, cooling, and ventilation from a central plant that only serves the building that they occupy. Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Patrick
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I would think that in order to only consider a part of the building you would need to consider the occupants of the 72% as one tenant and the remaining as another even though they are the same entity. This falls under Case 1 and requires separate metering. If you tried to argue an alternative compliance path based on the whole building metering then it appears as if Case 2 would be required. So I do not think the building meters would earn this credit.
Marcus,
Thanks for the quick review and response. I agree with the need for separate metering, but I question why the template differentiates each energy end use when one electric meter for the 72% area is compliant? Is it simply to indicate which end uses are included on that meter?
Thank you again,
Patrick
Yes I think that is the case. They just want to know if that end use is included on a submeter, not that it has its own submeter.
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