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Water Usage for parks and open spaces

CS-2009 WEp1: Water Use Reduction
posted by Deborah Lucking on Jun 10, 2016, 2:11 pm

Our project is a small pavilion in a park, with tenant space for a food outlet, and (separate) restroom facilities to serve park users.
We are looking for guidance on how to estimate the...

40% WWR does it include the wall connected to other building?

NC-2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Haojie Wang on Jun 14, 2016, 8:51 am

90.1 only says above grade wall, but if we have a wall that's directed connected to another building, should we also include those wall area in the calculation? The wall is using the same...

O+M: Retail or ID+C: CI

LEED Rating System Selection
posted by Yulia Chen on Jun 14, 2016, 4:50 pm

Hi,

We are a tenant occupying 30% of a multi-tenant building. The office was last renovated in 2011.

Is it possible for us to go for Commercial Interior cert even though we missed...

Base Case vs Project Case

CS-2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
posted by Dana Guzman on Jun 14, 2016, 6:19 pm

Hi, can you kindly clarify whether the glazing percentage and floor area for the base case needs to match the project case when reviewing compliance for EAp2?

Onsite Recreation Space

Pilot-Credits EQpc78: Design for active occupants
posted by Megan Recher on Jun 15, 2016, 6:44 pm

We are working on a new high school and I want to clarify the onsite recreation space. The credit says to "provide an onsite recreation space with exercise opportunities for both adults and...

Local food production

Pilot-Credits SSpc82: Local food production
posted by Lourdes Salinas on Jun 15, 2016, 7:48 pm

What is the best option of water irrigation systems for a small on site food production?

LEED Rating System for tenant in existing building

LEED Rating System Selection
posted by Jennifer Isaac on Jun 15, 2016, 10:08 pm

My client is a pharmaceutical facility that occupies part of the area of an existing building. The pharmaceutical facility space went into major renovations about 4 years ago and has been in...

Reject Water from Reverse Osmosis system?

NC-2009 WEc1: Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by Eric Bautista on Jun 16, 2016, 4:31 am

Dear Fellow LEED Users,

In the Irrigation Design Case tabulation, can I declare "reject water" from reverse osmosis equipment system of campus, as the source of non-potable water?

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What are the baseline conditions?

EBOM-v4 SSc5: Site management
posted by Zachary Hayes on Jun 16, 2016, 4:05 pm

This says we have to reduce from the baseline, which I assume is our initial reported use. However, if this is the case how can there be any reduction? Is it suppose to read something along the...

Thermal Comfort- Adaptive Method

NC-2009 IEQc7.1: Thermal comfort - design
posted by SAMY Chamy on Jun 17, 2016, 7:05 am

Dear All

we are using (http://smap.cbe.berkeley.edu/comforttool) this link for thermal comfort results but we use PMV method for A/c...