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NC-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction

Sauna

I am working on a hotel project, which would use standard fixtures (no high-efficiency fixtures), but would still earn 2 points under WEc2, and 2 points under WEc3 due to utilizing recycled gray water for flush fixtures. Clients are reluctant to use high efficiency fixtures due to a hotel's design standard. Clients included sauna facility in the building design. Sauna would consume more water through flow fixtures. I am concerned that because sauna, default fixture uses # would be advised by a reviewer to reflect increased use of flow fixtures. That would prevent the building from the meeting WEp1 requirements. Would it be ok with using default values, or should i modify the default values early in the process, asking my clients to change fixtures, so I could avoid the building from being ineligible for LEED certification?

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Fri, 04/06/2012 - 17:19

Jim, if you know that there will be a fixture group with non-default usage I think it is up to you to establish now what that usage will look like, rather than wait for a LEED reviewer to catch this and require clarificaiton. If that leads to the client putting in better fixtures—that's great, and is what LEED is about!

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