For our project, the canteen was designed with an area that would give an occupancy of 1400 people if we were to follow the default ASHRAE 62.1 occupancy, which is very high given the fact that...

I am using IES VE to model hotel type rooms that each have a separate bathroom. The bathrooms do not have any heating equipment, cooling equipment or thermostats in them. But they have exhaust...

up June 18, 2013- 8:38 pm I'm sorry, I see conflicting explanations of how to determine the area of a pitched roof on this forum page. "Roof area" says "as measured when prjoected...

I'am modelling a building with 2 levels of underground parking, which is unconditioned, opened to the outdoor, and having 4 fans (2 supply and 2 exhaust), while the exhaust fans are DCV's based...

We are putting together a baseline of a high rise residential building. In Appendix G, it states that we need to use 19 w/gpm. However, in the commentary, it states that this is based off of 60...

We got the comment as follow:
"However, the supporting documentation to confirm that all design conditions fall within the ASHRAE 55-2004 acceptable ranges has not been provided as required...

We got a review from a Project and there are 2 comments that we are concerned about:

1) The review team says "that corridors, storage spaces, and technical rooms with intermitente...

thumbs up November 14, 2013- 4:41 pm Ted- Just a note of caution… I recently quoted some information from another LEEDuser forum via the Contact Us form and the reply from the review team was: "Please note that while the LEED User website or LEED User forum information may provide useful guidance based on other project team experiences, information on that site should not be considered precedent...

Just curious - how many of you include taxes in the cost calculation for your materials credits?
I typically only include the cost of the...

Hello,

We are documenting this credit for a project where the only...