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LEED CS & LEED CI - PV array

CS-2009 EAc1:Optimize Energy Performance
posted by  S. Sachs  on 

Hi, I am working on a LEED CS project, at the same time the tenant is pursuing LEED CI (separate submission) and planning to install a PV array to achieve the 2.5% of building electricty required

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Thu May 5, 2011, 8:27 pm

Estimated crown diameter

Pilot-Credits PC14:Walkable Streets
posted by  Christina Lynch  on 

Does anyone have a good resource for or way of calculating a tree's estimated crown diameter? (Benchmark "m" for NC/CS or "f" for Schools). Thanks!

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Thu May 5, 2011, 7:44 pm

Unirrigated areas in Option 1

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Eamon Geary  on 

Hello, One project is working to achieve this credit via Option 1 (50% reduction in potable water use). Through a variety of common methods, we have reduced our irrigation water use.

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Michael Baker Jr, Inc.
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Thu May 5, 2011, 6:38 pm
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Albanese Development Corp.
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Thu May 5, 2011, 5:08 pm

ASHRAE 62.1 - 2007 section 5.9 Particulate Matter Removal

NC-2009 IEQp1:Minimum IAQ Performance
posted by  Carolina Vergnano  on 

To comply with the section 5.9, Particulate Matter Removal, the HVAC system needs to have a filter or an air cleaner having a minimum efficiency of MERV 6. Does this filter needs exactly be insid

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DLR Group | Westlake Reed Leskosky
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Thu May 5, 2011, 12:25 pm

WEp1 Scope or Space?

CI-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction
posted by  Michelle Bracewell-Musson  on 

The Bird's Eye above states only fixtures within the project 'SCOPE' which would mean that a project that does not include plumbing fixtures, would be exempt.

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pw
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Wed May 4, 2011, 7:06 pm
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YRG sustainability
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Wed May 4, 2011, 5:25 pm

Water Use in a Horizontal Expansion

NC-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction
posted by  Neil Rosen  on 

What do you do if you are constructing a horizontal expansion but you have no plumbing fixtures in the expansion?

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Jacobs
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Wed May 4, 2011, 4:55 pm

commissioning performance period

EBOM-2009 EAc2.2:Existing Building Commissioning—Implementation
posted by  Pablo Fortunato Suarez  on 

This is for a 1st time EBOM project (not recertification). If Six Sigma Projects were initiated 5 years prior to LEED registration but implemented every year thereafter until the present time: 1)

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GreenArc Sustainable Building & Architecture
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Wed May 4, 2011, 4:33 pm

Authority having Jurisdiction

CS-2009 IEQp1:Minimum IAQ Performance
posted by  Diego Prada  on 

We are working on a CS naturally ventilated office Building.

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Tue May 3, 2011, 5:40 pm