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NC-v4 EQc7:Daylight

Skylights

Keith Lindemulder

Environmental Business Development- LEED AP BD&C

Nucor Corporation

LEEDuser Basic Member

132 thumbs up

November 25, 2014

I haven't seen any comments about how to calculate the daylight value of skylights. Has the prescriptive path been eliminated completed from LEED v4?

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Eddy Santosa

Director of Sustainability

DBR Engineering Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Tue, 11/25/2014 - 01:22

Keith, There is no more prescriptive path in version 4. Version 4 has 2 simulation paths and 1 measurement path.

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