I have a possible case with a office building that also contains a large Data Center. The data center is only 2 % of the square meters, but accounts for about 85 % of the preliminary assumed energy consumption. I does not make much sense to me to optimize the building, when there is such a large energy consumption in the datacenter. We will try to lower the energy consumption as much as possible on both data center and on the building, but I have a few questions that I hope you could help me with
1) What constitutes a baseline datacenter? How do I estimate how much is possible to save on the datacenter?
2) Is it possible to divide the project into two LEED projects; one for the building and one for the datacenter? It would make more sense to me if we optimized the individually. They are located within the same building envelope (datacenter is placed on the groundfloor of an larger officebuilding).
Kind regards
Niels Varming
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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October 3, 2012 - 10:00 am
There was a recent discussion on the baseline subject here - http://www.leeduser.com/credit/NC-2009/EAp2?page=0#comment-30261
Regarding the dividing of the project see the MPRs.
Brian WU
Delta ElectronicsNovember 27, 2017 - 5:08 am
LEED BD+C: Data Centers only addresses whole building data centers (greater than 60%). It seems that it is not suitable for small data center.
For small datacenter with area around like 200 square meters and NOT including rest of the building, can we use LEED BD+C: New Construction and Major Renovation standard to apply this small datacenter LEED certification?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 27, 2017 - 9:05 am
For a small interior space you would nee to use LEED for Commercial Interiors.
Brian WU
Delta ElectronicsNovember 27, 2017 - 9:23 am
Thanks, Roberts. This is very helpful. The area of data center is around 200 square meters and the area of office building is around 20,000 square meters. Customer hopes to get LEED data center certification for promotion.
I need to provide the reference information to my customer. Is there any reference page/Q and A/official reply from LEED standard or USGBC website?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 27, 2017 - 9:36 am
Yes, this is based on the official LEED Rating System Selection guidance.