On this same note, what do you all think about this situation: we have all our OA measurement done for each AHU and all are complying except 1 because the TAB contractor thought it was acceptable to have the OA be +/- 10% of the OA rates we gave him from our VRP calculations. So, he under ventilated one of the AHUs by about 20 cfms. We finally got the contractor to come back and adjust the AHU and increase the cfms to reach the minimum. He came back this month (October) and all our other PP ended on Aug 31st. Does this mean we now need to extend all our other PP to Sept. 31 so that they call end within 30 days of each other? Or do you think the reviewers will accept having the one AHU measured in October? It has been nearly impossible for us to collect data from the building tenants so going back and asking for Sept. data will be very difficult.
Thank so much for any thoughts on this :)
Nelina Loiselle
Above Green239 thumbs up
October 21, 2013 - 11:56 am
If anyone can provide some feedback on this, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Thanks :)
Ben Stanley
Senior Sustainability ManagerWSP - Built Ecology
LEEDuser Expert
250 thumbs up
October 21, 2013 - 5:27 pm
Hi Nena,
I think that there's a good chance that the review team will allow the testing for the one AHU to have fallen out of the performance period window if you explain the situation. I've seen projects where the reviewers allowed the project team to make corrections to the AHUs after the preliminary review to bring them into compliance. Given that, I think your best bet is to hold off changing the performance period for all of the other credits until after the preliminary review and only if GBCI requires it.