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Enhanced Refrigerant Management - Purchased Cooling Loop

NC-2009 EAc4:Enhanced Refrigerant Management
posted by  Vinny Greco  on 

If a university building is tied in to a campus chilled water distribution, does the campus chiller plant have to be included in the building's refrigerant use?

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Thu Feb 11, 2016, 7:32 am

Option 3 - strategy 2

CI-v4 MRc2:Interiors life-cycle impact reduction
posted by  Gail Napell  on 

The credit language reads: Design at least 50% of interior nonstructural walls, ceilings, and floors to be movable or demountable.

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Tue Aug 29, 2017, 8:56 pm

Tree grates

CS-2009 SSc7.1:Heat Island Effect—Nonroof
posted by  sue bryant  on 

Can the metal grates used where trees are planted in a hardscape count as open paver area [as long as the 50% open grid is achieved]?

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Mon Nov 30, 2015, 5:18 pm

insulation thickness versus energy modeling

NC-v4 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  Jennifer Webb  on 

We are running into a situation where the insulation is slightly under the R38 (R34.8) that is required per ASHRAE 90.1 yet the energy model shows we are over 10% energy efficient.

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Mon Jun 27, 2016, 2:00 pm

Third Party Review v4?

NC-v4 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  SBS Department  on 

Does anyone know if either prereq EA - Minimum Energy Performance, or the Optimize Energy Performance credit need a third party review as it did under the CaGBC's LEED 2009?

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Tue Jan 6, 2015, 3:01 pm

Overhead Vegetation

NC-v4 SSc3:Open space
posted by  Katherine Bachman  on 

I am looking for clarification on what is considered to be 'overhead vegetation.' Per the LEED v4 Reference Guide, "a minimum of 25% of outdoor space must be vegetated or have overhead vegetated c

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Thu Mar 26, 2015, 4:01 pm

Air Filter "Dirty Filter" Allowance in Fan Energy Calcs

NC-2009 EAc1:Optimize Energy Performance
posted by  Charles Shinneman  on 

I cannot find where there is any mention about "air filter loading" allowance requirements for fan power calculations.

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Fri Jul 1, 2016, 2:04 pm

Where do I upload the response report for Design Final Package ?

NC-2009 IEQc7.2:Thermal Comfort—Verification
posted by  Matt Dem  on 

We, as a team are getting ready to submit our design final submission and prepared a report to respond to each individual comments made by GBCI.

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Mon Jun 1, 2015, 9:05 pm

Water Meter

Homes-v4 WEp1:Water metering
posted by  Gregory Minott  on 

My understanding of this credit, is that at a minimum there needs to be a water meter installed to monitor the entire building. It is not required to provide submetering.

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Tue Sep 13, 2016, 1:03 am

Urban setting/city block difficulties

Pilot-Credits PC14:Walkable Streets
posted by  Nicholas Bristow  on 

When completing this pilot credit, it seems that it should give more allowances for buildings that have streets on all four sides (take up an entire city block).

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Wed Apr 6, 2016, 4:26 pm