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NC-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction

Template rounding for Design Case-Urinal

We have completed our template with all fixtures included and are at 39.97% savings!!! UGH. As we dig into the template to see if there is a way to reach that 40% threshold, and thus 3 more points we have noted the 0.125 GPF (1 pint) urinal is rounding to 0.13 GPF. This small rounding make the difference between 39.97% savings and 40.03% savings. Has anyone run into something similar? We are planning submit our own spreadsheet of calculations, but was wondering if anyone had has success ina similar situation.

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Wed, 03/27/2013 - 19:14

Hi Rebekah, While the calcs are performed in the prerequisite for (WEp1) check the associated credit form (WEc3) to see if it reflects a 40% savings.

Wed, 03/27/2013 - 20:01

No luck. It still only show the 39.97% savings, and 8 points acheived (instead of 11). I just realized I posted this in the wrong rating system-this is actually a CI project.

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