What are the requirements to earn this credit for multi-building applications? The credit langage focuses on "the entire building and associated grounds" but how does this play out for campuses? Does each building need a meter, or is one meter for the whole campus acceptable? What about meters, such as irrigation, that can only effectively be installed to serve an entire campus?
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Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
March 2, 2010 - 7:04 pm
Good question - in terms of the building-level metering, the expectation is certainly that each building on a campus would have its own water meter. The more complicated question, which I'm not sure has a firm answer, is how campus buildings can document compliance with the irrigation meter component. I would think that one could focus on the credit intent, which is to ensure a level of metering granular enough to ensure effective performance monitoring and tracking of surprises like leaks or changes in use patterns. To that end, I think metering would be significantly more extensive than a single campus irrigation meter but perhaps not so ambitious as an individual irrigation water meter associated with every individual building on campus. That is, some kind of irrigation zone metering rather than a single figure for campus irrigation water use.