What the client has is a project for proposed upgrades since the building is quite old, making upgrades necessary. This includes plumbing fixtures to comply with UPC/IPC standards as one of the priorities. An economic assessment is included in the documentation since it is required by an existing encompassing policy for all expenses which include building services upgrades. Will this suffice?
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Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
February 15, 2011 - 4:46 pm
It sounds compliant to me Pablo - The intent of this aspect of the requirement is simply to ensure that future decisions about water fixtures are made with more complete information in hand. In most instances, fixtures are chosen based on appearance, function, and most of all, capital cost. By requiring economic analysis of more efficient fixtures, USGBC is simply trying to add 'long term water costs' and actual gallons of water saved to that decision matrix. If your assessment does this, it should be fine.
Amy Balderrama
Project ManagerSSRCx, LLC
10 thumbs up
March 21, 2011 - 3:23 pm
We are being asked to address "disposal cost savings" by the reviewer on our 2008 O&M project in our Economic Assessment policy. If we have already addressed reduced waste water generation - what would they be referring to?
Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
March 28, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Amy - sounds like a possible mix-up in terminology Amy. 'Disposal cost savings' sounds to me like money you won't be charged for sending water to the municipal sewage plant. I'm not really sure how that differs from waste water generation though - seems like different ways of referring to the same thing. Savings relating to this credit really only come from 3 places - spending less money buying water, spending less money paying to dispose of waste water (sewage), and any reduced labor costs thanks to the new fixtures. If you've provided those three things, you should be all set.