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There are no mercury-containing lamps installed in the project building. Can we upload a signed statement from our property manager instead of completing the credit form and documentation?

A large multi-tenant project does not have a uniform lighting standard, therefore there are a number of different types of lamps are installed on the project. How should we go about documenting this credit?

Do we need to provide a purchasing plan if the lamp inventory of currently installed lamps shows that the average mercury content is already below 90 picograms per lumen-hour?

Do lamps for task lighting need to be included in the purchasing plan?

Do mercury-free lamps need to be included in Table MRc4-1 Lamp Purchasing Plan and Table MRc4-2 Performance Period Lamp Purchasing?

All of the outdoor fixtures in the project building are mercury-free. Can we exclude all outdoor fixtures from the purchasing plan?

The project building is a large multi-tenant building and tenants are responsible for their own lamp purchases. Can lamps in tenant spaces be excluded?

How do you know if a lamp meets the NEMA guidelines, and can therefore be excluded?

The project building includes a significant amount of process lighting (i.e. sports arena lighting or studio lighting). Do these lamps need to be included?

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EBOM-2009 MRc4:Sustainable Purchasing—Reduced Mercury in Lamps

Tracking in Residence Halls

We're working on a LEED Volume prototype for our campus and received this feedback on MRc4: Only up to 10% of the floor area under separate control may be excluded from the calculations, so if residential spaces making up the majority of the building are excluded, this credit cannot be earned. This is disappointing as we are great with purchasing low-mercury bulbs as a campus but have no real way to track the lamps that students are purchasing or using in personal lamps. I suppose we could do a sweep of all rooms to determine the types of bulbs used during the performance period, but have no way of tracking whether their personal purchases comply with our lamp purchasing plan. I realize we are supposed to include all lamps, including "portable fixtures," but does anyone see a way around including the residents' personal lamps? Perhaps we could prove that they make up less than 10% of lamps in the building? Thanks

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Fri, 11/02/2012 - 21:26

Have you considered partnering with a big manufacturer like Philips or Sylvania to provide each student living in the dorms with one CFL at the start of each school year?

Fri, 11/02/2012 - 21:44

Hmm, that's a thought. I guess we could ask each person how many fixtures they have so we know the number of portable fixtures and the bulbs in them then. Do you think the review team would go for that?

Mon, 11/12/2012 - 21:15

Emily, This sounds like a really creative idea, and a great way to engage students…if you have the time within your project scope, you may want to send the question to GBCI - or if you feel the credit is worth it, submit a CIR to know for sure...if they accept the approach, you could include the GBCI response/ ruling in your application, and in theory this would protect against a reviewer's opinion to the contrary....Good luck!

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