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Greenfield or previously developed?

NC-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Ilan Yahav  on 

I'm wondering if a project I'm working on, situated near the coast in Israel, is considers a greenfield or developed area.

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Tue Aug 29, 2017, 2:20 pm

Required to use facility weighted average?

Pilot-Credits MRpc87:Verified Construction & Demolition Recycling Rates
posted by  Eileen Gohr  on 

"Recycling rates applied to a project's waste generation must be the weighted average for the facility over the time in which the project sent materials to the facility." Does this mean that proje

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Water Heater efficiency per table 7.8 of ASHRAE 90.1-2007

NC-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Performance
posted by  Billy Condor  on 

Hello, As required by 7.4.2 Equipment Efficiency of ASHRAE 90.1-2007, for a water heater less than 12 kW and more that 20 gal, the required performance is EF=0.97-0.00132*V. My question is: is ther

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Mon Jun 19, 2017, 4:27 pm

Cooling Towers at Central Plant

NC-v4 WEp2:Indoor water use reduction
posted by  Risto Beatty  on 

If cooling towers are located offsite at a central utility plant, does the project need to comply with the cooling tower requirements of this prerequisite?

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Wed Aug 30, 2017, 4:13 pm

UE Ecolabel

CI-v4 EQc2:Low emitting materials
posted by  Gabriela Mena   on 

Is a EU Ecolabel Certificate an USGBC approved program? Kind regards

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Sat Aug 26, 2017, 7:56 pm

Automatic Receptacle Control

CI-v4 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  Gabriela Mena   on 

Hi, We have a CI project in Mexico City, for the receptacle control we are specifying 50%of private and open offices with a timer.

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Tue Jun 20, 2017, 1:25 pm

Existing buidling assembly

Schools-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Performance
posted by  soham babu  on 

If we are not knowing existing assembly values can we go with ASHRAE 90.1 values for existing assembly. USGBC will approve ?

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Tue Jun 20, 2017, 1:44 pm

Reduced parking footprint for College/University

NC-v4 LTc7:Reduced parking footprint
posted by  Iris Amdur  on 

The project is a single building which is part of a larger educational campus.

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Tue Aug 29, 2017, 10:04 pm

Battery Disposal

EBOM-2009 MRc7:Solid Waste Management—Ongoing Consumables
posted by  Claire Bannister  on 

Sorry if this is a repetitive question, but just need clarification- we are meant to be weighing batteries such as AAAs and AAs prior to disposal? and same with light bulbs?

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Thu Jul 6, 2017, 6:26 pm

Composting

EBOM-v4 MRc4:Solid waste management - ongoing
posted by  Claire Bannister  on 

Are existing buildings that are not schools still able to get a points for composting food waste? Can it be included in the calculations of ongoing solid waste?

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Thu Jul 6, 2017, 6:44 pm