Hello!
I am currently working on the WEp1 credit for a student apartment. I am pretty new to the project and I was hoping someone could help me out by answering a few questions.
1. Would the FTE and student default fixture values for residential buildings would be the same since both group lives in the building? Also, over the summer we host conferences at our school and the conference attendees would stay in the apartments for a few nights....would they be considered visitors and would the default fixture values be any different than the FTE and student ones?
2. Would I need to do two set of calculations because we have the academic year where students stay in the apartments, and then summer in which students move out and the apartments are free to host conferences? (If so, we also have a some students stay in the apartments for summer school...would they be in the academic year calculation or the summer one)
Please also note that the summer conference attendees varies in number and lengths of nights staying.
Sorry if I sound confusing. Feel free to ask me to clarify anything. I appreciate any help given. Thank you!
Lili Pan
LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Managing DirectorL GEES 智利捷达
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October 12, 2013 - 5:55 am
The group types depends on:
a, how many working days annually
b, which fixtures for each group's use
c, sex ratio
To you question
1, if the FTE and students has same working days, use same fixtures,and have same sex ratio, then you can combine them together. The people coming to the conference are visitors. But for this prerequisite calculation. They share the same usage pattern as FTE, only with much more less working days.
2, You need three. One using acadamic year. One using summer one. One using the entire year (acadamic year + summar one)
Hope I answer your questions.