We have a main, fire water and irrigation meter. If read weekly and calibrated properly we have what is needed to obtain 2 points in this credit. We have listed other submeters in the template because it asks for ALL submeters. These meters are installed in two restaurant/tenant spaces. The water used by these tenants does not account for a large portion of the building's potable water demand. My engineer thinks that because these submeters are not within the list of Option 2 meters they do not need to be read weekly. They are in the template (and the reviewer has seen the documentation once) so I'm thinking that as long as they are listed in the template they must be read weekly.
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Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
338 thumbs up
June 22, 2011 - 12:19 pm
I might not be reading you question correctly but I'll answer then you come back if needed. All meters and submeters must be read weekly. The sum of all the meter readings must cover ALL the potable water used for that building. If you have submeters behind submeters behind the main meter then no those don't need to be read weekly. However in reality you would be reading these sub-sub meters in an attempt to drill down the potable water usage to a particular segment/tenant/process use within your building, maybe to back charge or pinpoint who is the gross user in the building.
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Vanessa Seibert
Principal, ArchitectVerde Concepts
55 thumbs up
June 22, 2011 - 5:52 pm
Yes it does thanks. I guess any meter you have should be read weekly. It's just really time consuming. The meters are all over the place; two are above cars in the parking lot, one is under a heavy concrete cover, don't know about the last two. I'll let the client know.
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
338 thumbs up
June 22, 2011 - 6:13 pm
Sharon
Check out Cypress Envirosystems. They seem to be adept at clip on converters to change manual meter readings in wireless digital signals.
Harry Sim is the head guy there