I am running a high-rise commercial development for LEED-CS. According to Table G3.1.1B, the baseline system shall be chilled water. But the local regulation restricts the use of cooling tower...

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Two little questions:
1) If I had automatic internal draps, would I be obliged to simulate them in the baseline/proposed building?
2) Is it possible to consider, as...

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I have a question regarding energy modeling for my project located in Northeast Mexico.
It is a shopping mall in which all the middle hallways and circulation areas are going...

In 7.4.4.2 Temperature maintenance controls recirculating hot-water systems shall be equipped with automtatic time switches or other controls that can be set to switch off the usage temperature...

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The owners of the building we are certifying want to evaluate the effects of the thin client (form 150 W/computer to 50W/computer) on EAp2/EAc1. Adopting this system, i would...

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How are the Thermostat values (Upper and Lower limit) to be selected for LEED CS please? We are currently working on a project for which the climate (Sao Paolo) indicates that the...

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I'm working on a office project with outdoor spaces within the LEED Boundary. The project's construction phase is almost finished. Originally this was going to be the...

Mandatory provision 6.4.3.2 Setpoint Overlap Restriction
When heating and cooling to a zone is controlled by separate thermostatic controls shall heating setpoint exceed cooling setpoint....

We are modelling our CS case in Sao Paulo (Climate 2A). the language in ashrae 90.1 2007 was not so clear so though i should ask here,

Is it necessary to have a heat exchanger for our...

Hi, I know this has been discused before, but I still can´t make it.
The thing is that I have a C&S building to model.
I have assumed 35 W/m2 of other loads on all tennant spaces...