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Protected or preserved trees in calculator

Pilot-Credits SSpc158: Onsite Carbon Sequestration Through Plantings
posted by Courtney France on Aug 25, 2022, 11:09 am

For 'Protected', or preserved, trees on an existing site, are teams required to include them in BOTH the baseline and design case i-Tree calculations?  Exclude from both cases to avoid extra data...

Campus approach: can we install water meter for the entire landscape, sanitaryware as a whole

NC-v4 WEc4: Water metering
posted by Michael on Aug 25, 2022, 5:37 am

My project is a campus project, consisting of 4 individual buildings. To fulfill this credit, can I install 1 meter to monitor sanitaryware for 4 buildings together as a whole? or I have to split...

Last reply: Maeve Donohue, Aug 25, 2022, 9:21 am

building on campus with no smoking policy

CI-v4 EQp2: Environmental tobacco smoke control
posted by Megan Valentine on Aug 24, 2022, 8:19 pm

We are renovating a building on a campus. The campus has a no smoking policy with signage stating the policy at all entrances to the campus. Will LEED accept this campus wide policy, and campus...

PV Solar Panels outside LEED Boundary

NC-2009 EAc2: On-Site Renewable Energy
posted by Ammar Yahia on Aug 25, 2022, 3:56 am

A New Construction Project in which the PV panels to be installed on a "330,000 SQM roof of an airport terminal building project"  to offset 22% of annual energy cost.

Is it possible to...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 25, 2022, 8:50 am

Window Contacts and ASHRAE90.1 / Innovation Credits?

NC-v4 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Allison Wilson on Aug 16, 2022, 2:56 pm

Hi there,

An engineer reached out to me about contact switches documented on operable windows that are empowered to shut down the associated FCU in dormitory bedrooms when the window is...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 24, 2022, 7:47 pm

Lighting tab- unconditioned spaces

NC-v4 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Paul Caicedo on Aug 17, 2022, 1:38 am

Hello,

I am using DesignBuilder to export the minimum energy performance calculator spreadsheet; unconditioned spaces are not filled in the Tab Lighting.

I can't find if lighting...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 24, 2022, 7:02 pm

need of two excel file to show daylight compliance?

NC-v4 EQc7: Daylight
posted by Alwin Jino on Aug 19, 2020, 6:59 am

As per Version 4.1, IEQ Credit-Daylight: Options 2, Illuminance calculations. 

it is asked to perform daylight simulation for 9 a.m and 3 p.m on a clear-sky day at the equinox. should we...

Last reply: Debra a. Lombard, Aug 24, 2022, 4:39 pm

Solar energy still doesn't count toward to minimum energy reduction in v4?

NC-v4 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Michael on Aug 24, 2022, 7:08 am

My understanding is that LEEDv4.1 allows on-site renewables to count toward compliance in the prerequisite. I'm wondering if LEEDv4 also allows to do so or we still have to reach the minimum...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 24, 2022, 11:52 am

Calculate U-value of exterior wall

NC-v4 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Michael on Aug 23, 2022, 11:55 pm

Regarding the...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 24, 2022, 11:50 am

Update energy model on construction phase review

NC-2009 EAc1: Optimize Energy Performance
posted by Vanessa Montezuma Ramos on Aug 23, 2022, 8:53 pm

Hi everyone. We have a LEEDv3 building that has suffered many updates in the past years. One of these changes refers to alternative energy sources: we are installing solar panels on the roof. The...

Last reply: Marcus Sheffer, Aug 24, 2022, 11:35 am