We are working on projects for LEED EBO&M and have some doubts related to the credits EApre1& EAc1. The Portfolio Manager Analysis is unable to classify the energy consumption of the plant within the standards of buildings. Thus, the use of a spreadsheet according to LEED is also unable to classify the energy consumption. Therefore we have some questions to ask you:
1 - Is it possible not to consider energy spent for the industrial process and utilities, considering only energy spent for building´s systems (HVAC, elevators etc)?
2 - If option one (1) is not possible, can we consider the energy consumption per unit of production (for example, kWh / kg produced rather than kWh/m2)?
3 - We would also like to know if is it acceptable to use Energy Star Index for industrial plants?
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Alexa Stone
ecoPreserve: Building Sustainability134 thumbs up
August 10, 2011 - 5:08 pm
Hi Paola, not sure how much my reply will help you but seems like your issue right now is "pre-LEED". I would start with Energy Star as it has pretty strong support when it comes to industrial facilities. I would reach out to buildings@energystar.gov directly on best practices and strategies how to correctly benchmark.
Once you have cleared that up, visit this LEED user area again and check out the offline calculator in the documentation toolkit section. You may end up having to use this if the facility cannot earn an Energy Star score.