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EBOM-2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance
My client has been hiring more regular employees over the past few months. As such the number of occupants is also expected to increase. What figure should we use as regular occupants? Is this based on our date of application, start or end of performance period? Or is there a LEED accepted methodology?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
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July 5, 2010 - 8:34 am
Pablo, I think Jason had a good answer to your similar qustion on the WEp1 forum in this comment.I would say the bottom line is to use a consistent methodology that is reasonable for your project, and to make sure that it doesn't appear inconsistent to GBCI reviewers.
Jenny Carney
Vice PresidentWSP
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July 12, 2010 - 3:42 pm
Pablo, for this particular credit it's important to follow the guidelines Energy Star establishes. The PE Guide (http://www.energystar.gov/ia/business/evaluate_performance/pm_lp_guide.pdf) gives some insight into how to determine average annual occupancy. If you have further questions, I'd recommend getting in touch with Energy Star directly, since ultimately the benchmarking for LEED Case 1 must be performed according to Energy Star's protocol.