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CI-2009 EAc1.4:Optimize Energy Performance—Equipment and Appliances

Energy Star Equipment

Dear Sir, One of our project as LEED Commercial Interior (USGBC) which is having the 75% of the area covered by lab and remaining 25% of the area with office. The lab which is used for testing the food, air, flue gas etc. The lab have multiple equipment for testing. Whether the lab equipment also required to be energy star or only the equipment in the office with energy star is okay. As per the guidance stating that 50% of the office equipment, electronics and commerical food service equipment should be the Energy Star Equipment to meet the LEED Requirement. Kindly send us whether the Lab equipment also need to be energy star equipment to meet the EAPr2 (50% of the equipment should be energy star equipment. Thanks & Regards, Ramesh Narayanan

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Paul Conrad
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CLEAResult Consulting
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Thu, 02/24/2011 - 13:51

Ramesh, The equipment that is required to be included in the EnergySTAR calculation is all equipment that has an EnergySTAR alternative. Equipment, such as most lab equipment, that does not have an EnergySTAR alternative it is not necessary to count. Paul

Fri, 02/25/2011 - 04:28

Dear Paul, Thanks for your prompt reply. Here this project is developing to relocate the people from somewhere else building. Therefore the office equipment like computer, laptop and other equipment will not be purchased newly, only the old office equipment will be used here. Kinldy inform me whether the old equipment also required energy star or only newly purchased equipments are required energy star. The question is whether old office equipments are necessary to count to meet the EAPr2 (50% of the equipment should be the energy star) or does not required to count?
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Tristan Roberts
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Fri, 02/25/2011 - 05:05

Ramesh, I would recommend reading about this question in the information above under "Bird's Eye View" and below in other forum discussions.
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Ron Frank
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Terrasset Management Group
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Mon, 04/18/2011 - 20:09

For clarification, all Energy Star rated and non Energy Star rated equipment/appliances purchased "new" for your commercial interior project should be calculated based on "rated power in wattage". Rated power is the maximum power it can draw under any circumstance. You divide the rated power of the Energy Star equipment/appliances against or by the total new equipment/appliances purchased to determine the percentage and points earned. In addition, It is at times difficult to determine the rated power in wattage with the spec sheets, website and labels on the equipment and can use the default rated power in watts in table 2 on page 179. Please confirm. Thank you,
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Grace Ming
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Fri, 05/06/2011 - 09:15

Hello All, Further to Ron's query above, could anyone advise if it is OK to use the default rated power in watts in table 2 on page 179 of LEED CI reference guide for NON-Energy Star equipment & appliances as well. In one of our projects, the client is using water cooler and ice machine as well. How do we calculate the rated power for those appliances? The energy efficiency of those appliances are rated by "kWh/day" and "lb ice/day" respectively. Many thanks in advance. Regards, Grace
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Shevaun Barrie
Inland Technical Services Ltd.
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Mon, 01/23/2012 - 18:20

Hi everyone, We've submitted this as an ID credit for LEED Canada NC 1.0 and the reviewer has told us to resubmit as Canada CI 1.0 EAc1.4. The reference guide says that the LLT table column for rated power has a default value, but I'm playing around with the LLT and it does not. The reference guide has an example table on pg 171 with values in it but it does not explicitly say 'use these values as the default values.' We have wattage for all equipment except washing machines, which have a rating listed in kwh/year. I've checked the CIRs but no dice. I know this is an older reference guide and Canadian, but maybe someone can help us determine where to go from here. Thank you very much, Shevaun

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