Hi,
I am currently working on an office building which is aiming for LEED Silver under CI (2009). Although there are a number of computers etc, on the site, all of these are going to be reused and hence do not fall under the "new" category. That left us with a refrigerator that will be purchased new. This was included in the form, however, we have been asked to include all the appliances. Is this just a matter of clarifying that all the other equipment is existing and hence is not part of the scope, or do we have to replace all the computer with new energy star ones?
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5909 thumbs up
January 29, 2016 - 11:12 am
You are not required to include any of the old equipment unless you have included some of it. If you only included the new then just tell the reviewer that everything else is used.
Suzanne Painter-Supplee, LEED AP+ID&C
PrincipalSEESolutions LLC
126 thumbs up
January 29, 2016 - 11:20 am
If purchased within the same year, and reuse, you can count it but I'm not clear on whether you "have to". The oddity of this credit is that it doesn't matter what you USE. It matters what you BUY. So you can reuse all the energy hogs you want as long as you don't buy any in a category where an Energy Star standard exists.
Suzanne Painter-Supplee, LEED AP+ID&C
PrincipalSEESolutions LLC
126 thumbs up
January 29, 2016 - 11:22 am
If purchased within the same year, and reuse, you can count it but I'm not clear on whether you "have to". The oddity of this credit is that it doesn't matter what you USE. It matters what you BUY. So you can reuse all the energy hogs you want as long as you don't buy any non-Energy Star equipment in categories where an Energy Star standard exists.
Kalyan Nishtala
Novus Engineering, P.C.8 thumbs up
January 29, 2016 - 2:29 pm
I think if no new purchases are being made in a particular category of appliances, then they aren't consider part of the scope of the project and hence are exempt. However, I agree that older equipment can be energy hogs but it comes down to the cost when the owner or tenant considers this option. It would hard to make them agree to replacing inefficient older equipment that can be reused instead of purchasing new equipment when they can meet the credit requirements without the later.