Hallo, we are working in a project located outside the US. We have found local source of data for most of the air contaminants listed by NAAQS. However, we have not found contaminants for PM2.5:
i. Can we take NAAQS PM2.5 limits instead of local average data? http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/s_pm_history.html
ii. We intend to compare CFD's output contaminant levels against 24h average data. Is this the right methodology to demonstrate compliance?
iii. We are a bit confused about what specific contaminants should be considered under the category "Other air contaminants". After doing some research on OSHA and NIOSH standards we have found out a really extensive list of air contaminants to be controlled. We would appreciate to have these air contaminants narrowed down in order to simplify documentation. Please check out these two links:
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards...
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/intridl4.html
Thanks
Gustavo De las Heras Izquierdo
LEED Expert185 thumbs up
August 6, 2014 - 10:44 am
Has anyone tackled this particular problems so far?
Mara Baum
Partner, Architecture & SustainabilityDIALOG
674 thumbs up
August 6, 2014 - 11:43 am
Hi Gustavo, I haven't had to address those issues yet and it's possible that no one here has, particularly for items i and iii. (There may be others here who can address item ii - ?)
If your project is registered then you should consider submitting those as clarification questions through LEED Online. GBCI will hopefully either be able to give you answers (if they are straight forward) or instruct you to submit a CIR (if they are complicated and involve interpreting the credit). Either way, I hope you post a follow up to the forum here.