A corner room in our project has windows on two sides (North + West). Currently, the project is designed to include view-preserving automated shades for just the west wall. These windows make up approximately 75% of the window-area of the room. When we do our analysis for this credit, the space is considered overlit before any accounting for the automated shades is considered.
Are we allowed to answer "Yes" to the "View Preserving Automated Shades" question (Column S) as the majority of the windows have shades (and the more-critical daylight-intensive direction has them)? Do we have to answer "No" as not all windows have the shades? Any guidance for this sort of a situation?
TODD REED
Energy Program SpecialistPA DMVA
LEEDuser Expert
890 thumbs up
July 13, 2016 - 12:33 pm
You will need to divide the room in two separate lines in the calculator to properly document the credit. One line for the west wall and daylight zone, and one line for the north wall and daylight zone. You can check automated shades for only the west wall.
Edgar Arevalo
Associate18 thumbs up
September 19, 2019 - 3:37 pm
If we have to separate the room into two lines, do we have to account for the same total floor area of that room on both lines in the calculator?