I am wondering if the weekly meter readings need to be done on the same day every week? Can we read the meter on a wednesday and then on a thursday of the next week or read the meter on a thursday and then on a wednesday of the next week? Does it matter?
Thanks for the clarification.
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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June 17, 2011 - 5:58 pm
No not really... First, thank you for actually reading them...your problem, should there really be one, is when you post the readings to whatever excel spread sheet you are using. If the meter readings are coming from a manufacturing process (using millions of gallons a day) then the variation between the missing day or the extra day between readings will show up. If you're in a 10,000 sq ft office with 3 occupants then the discrepancy is minimal. I'm sure that you're not considering doing this EVERY 2 weeks, i.e jumping the days about so the whole focus of this credit apart from the act of actually doing the meter readings is to show up any leaks that there may be in the system. (you could overcome this by constructing the math in the excel spread sheet to show actual daily use). From the GBCI's point of view these discrepancies can be answerable however the real point of the credit is to track water usage over a period of time, understand any changes and use the data derived from the readings to make changes to the operations, equipment and occupant training to reduce water consumption
Wendy Gibson
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June 21, 2011 - 2:14 pm
That makes sense. Perhaps we'll just make sure to read it within the first two or three days of each week...and then average out daily usage and we can see any changes pretty quickly.
Thanks for your help!