Fatou Jabbie, | Technology | Design and Engineering Plan Reviews | Energy Code Compliance | Sustainability | LEED AP BD+C Founder and Principal USL Technology Inc. LEEDuser Premium Member 3 thumbs up February 4, 2019- 3:48 pm Hi could someone please help with an answer to the above? I will re-copy for ease. Thank you. Do vestibules at the entrance of buildings require mechanical ventilation? As those spaces have lots of air exchange with the outdoors when people enter or leave the building, it seems to me that ventilation is not necessary. Second question: Do interior stairs require ventilation?...

Charles Nepps NH Green Consulting LEEDuser Premium Member 97 thumbs up December 9, 2016- 1:31 pm The assumption you made: the paint is compliant, therefore whatever you paint will be compliant, is not unreasonable, or that uncommon. However, the texture of the surface has a lot of impact on the SRI value. For example a irregular surface can actually cast shadows on itself and reduce the overall SRI value.You'll need to contact the paint manufacturer and find out which material(s) they tested the paint on and hope that those match the materials you painted. If not, you may need to have additional testing...

Emily Purcell Sustainable Design Lead CannonDesign LEEDuser Expert 371 thumbs up April 23, 2018- 2:11 pm I wouldn't bother itemizing, but I would add a note in the special circumstances box (or just in the table if there's room) explaining that the one line represents 17 tile products and confirming all are exempt. Log in or register to post comments Melanie Blacklock Senior Project...

Susan Walter HDR LEEDuser Expert 1296 thumbs up April 26, 2018- 11:55 am What kind of hospital? Your description sounds like long-term care apartments. Inpatient hospitals in the US would use 1 'resident' per bed. My recommendation is to use 100% of bed count for the resident count unless you have an existing facility that can give you good metrics on 'average length of stay' and 'average occupancy.' You can also take the kitchen sink use for an inpatient down to zero. It is common to count inpatients as residents for the water calculations. No one else would be considered...

percentages of our raw materials are so high (and the new wood so low) that there's not a lot of credit to be had, but many entities we deal with really want the COC carried through. Thanks again...

base, parking lots and driveways. The average weight of concrete and asphalt loads is 20 metric tonnes. Sincerely, VP MRc2 Canada ...

Jenny Carney Vice President WSP LEEDuser Expert 657 thumbs up December 29, 2009- 11:59 am I'm not sure if there's been any consideration of offering a similar approach to pin-based CFLs, but I think the main motivation for the screw-based allowance is to make sure this credit doesn't discourage a switch from incandescents to screw-based CFLs. Since that possibility doesn't exist for the pin-based lamps, there's no special allowance. If you do happen to have a lot of pin-based CFLs that are pushing your picogram/lumen hour value up, you can always exclude up to 10% of lamps from...

thumbs up January 20, 2011- 11:51 pm Kitchen sinks are included—they are used for a lot more than pot filling. If you have a specific pot filling sink I could see excluding that, though. Log in or register...

but GBCI gives the final word when it comes to certification.That said, LEEDuser was built with the expert guidance of a team of dozens of the top LEED experts in the world, many of whom have lots of experience doing LEED reviews, serving on LEED committees, and more. Our forum is filled with hundreds more people like this. There are a lot of gray areas and uncharted waters in LEED, and these folks have...

Tristan Roberts Representative Vermont House of Representatives LEEDuser Expert 11478 thumbs up October 22, 2010- 8:40 am Sounds to me like it's safe to put LE/FE vehicles down as zero. Log...