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Sat, 10/16/2010 - 00:49

How large is the printing center, in terms of the percent of overall square footage? If it's less than 10% and separately metered, you may be allowed to excluded it from your EBOM efforts and energy benchmarking.

Sat, 10/16/2010 - 01:25

The printing center takes up about 20% of the building. I guess i cannot exclude it. If there was no printing center and 35% of the building was a college, would I still have to use the Case 2 calculator? How would you go about finding comparable building energy usage for the benchmarking?

Thu, 10/28/2010 - 14:48

That's right, no exclusions if it's over 10%. Even if it didn't exist, and the split was 35/65 between university and office, you still wouldn't be able to get an Energy Star score and would be in Case 2. As a Case 2, Option 2 project, you don't necessarily need comparables if you can show a reduction against a historic baseline. Have you investigate that approach?

Thu, 10/28/2010 - 17:13

We are investigating that option right now. We are running into difficulties getting the entire building's energy usage data for the past 6 years. As there are about 20 direct metered electricity accounts throughout the building. We created online accounts for each tenant's energy accounts, however these accounts only have approximately 2 years of usage data. It is also annoying that a few of our tenants have moved in within the past couple years. Will we be able to project their current usage into the historic baseline?

Tue, 11/16/2010 - 19:51

Generally projections are frowned upon, but occasionally in my experience there have been a few situations with extenuating circumstances where it might fly. This would happen through the CIR process for sure (I would not recommend trying this without advance clearance), and would generally entail a very conservative approach for the projections. Also, to clarify, you wouldn't need 6 complete years, but rather 3 consecutive years within the last 6 (plus the 1 year performance period). So, four years total. Finally, regarding tenants coming and going, you could potentially normalize for changing occupancy rates or types if you have a good handle when tenants came and went and the spaces they occupied.

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