We are undertaking the difficult task of LEED EBOM certification for a mall with many retail tenants that are metered separately and pay their own utllities directly. There are numerous smaller "inline" tenants as well as a few large "anchors." The utility provided us with meter data for all of the inline tenants, but not for the anchors, and I'm not sure we'll be able to get it. Can we exclude them from our LEED boundary or will that raise red flags?

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Dan Ackerstein

Principal

Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 09/07/2012 - 14:30

Red Flag City Jill! Those anchor tenants are a major source of energy consumption for the building, and their data 100% definitely must be included for EAp2/c1 purposes. All energy consumed by the building must be included. Malls pose an interesting challenge for EBOM, and this is one of the most significant ways. I hope you can work with the tenants to collect that information - best of luck to you. Dan

Jill Ziegler

Program Manager for Sustainability Initiatives

Forest City Enterprises, Inc.

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Thu, 09/20/2012 - 19:01

Thanks, Dan, I totally agree, but work with some folks who recall the days of LEED when you could be more "creative" with drawing your own boundaries, espeically for NC, and wanted to get some outside opinions! The good news is that we have since obtained the anchors' meter data and determined that we meet the Prereq with a couple points to spare for EAc1.

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