The project’s cooling requirement is being met by both chiller plant inside the project boundary as well as the chiller plant in the Building Owned DES. Metered waste water is being used for cooling towers catering both chiller plants. Project Team is targeting to earn this credit. The DES is catering multiple buildings in the campus in addition to the building in the LEED project boundary. Whether the project team has to include the non-potable water use for cooling towers of the DES also in addition to cooling towers located inside the project boundary in credit calculations? If yes, kindly advise how to meet the credit compliance.
You rely on LEEDuser. Can we rely on you?
LEEDuser is supported by our premium members, not by advertisers.
Go premium for
Ben Stanley
Senior Sustainability ManagerWSP - Built Ecology
LEEDuser Expert
250 thumbs up
December 1, 2015 - 11:07 am
I believe that you would need to address the cooling tower make up water for the Building Owned DES. It doesn't look like USGBCs published guidance, Treatment of District or Campus Thermal Energy in LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance document, addresses this credit but including it aligns with the requirements for credits that are included in this guidance.
So, to demonstrate compliance, the best would be to show that the Building Owned DES at the campus level and the plant within the project boundary both meet the credit requirements individually. If that's not possible, I'm not sure how you could demonstrate compliance without some more specifics.