From what I could see in related posts, "40 equivalent full-load hours per week" are plainly interpreted as 40 working hours and without any connection to thermal load and I am...

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I got the following comment from the LEED reviewer.
Based on the Energy Simulation Report (Annexure-1), it appears that interior lighting savings are being taken for...

Our LEED project has adopted lighting control as energy-saving strategy for parking garage and documented as exceptional calculation in EAp2 and EAc1. Soon we received USGBC's comment asking for...

If no tenants have been identified can the project owner claim relevant energy saving from reduced lighting power...

We're working on an energy modeling configuration and  filling the Section 1.4 Table: The project includes a mechanical room on the roof floor which is not entirely unclosed, it has a steel deck...

We are modeling a Core & Shell office building where the HVAC system is in the tenant scope. we are only delivering chilled water and outdoor air to the tenant areas. We are specifying fan...

We have a fully designed DOAS that provides ventilation to the core and shell spaces of the building.  Since the DOAS is fully designed, can we have it provide the ventilation to the shell spaces...

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The project we are modeling is an office building Core and Shell type with a Г shape. It consists of large office zones, as they will be later subdivided to the future tenants...

I'm working on a project where the building owner is going to provide several Fan&Coil units, the fan control of these units has 4 different presets of velocity being: super high, high,...

The building I am modeling is part of a campus. The LEED boundaries of the single buildings are coincident with the buildings while the exterior spaces are inside the LEED Campus boundary. How...