Will LEED round up the saving percentage to the nearest integer? e.g. 19.8% to 20%? Thanks in advance
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Saving percentage round up to the nearest integer?
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Marcus Sheffer
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February 25, 2015 - 9:12 am
No rounding on percent savings.
Haojie Wang
Energy ModelerKJWW Engineering
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February 25, 2015 - 9:13 am
Thanks Marcus for the quick reply
Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
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February 25, 2015 - 9:27 am
round up from 100th decimal? i.e. "19.99 = 20"
I believe the answer to be no, just checking as I am currently in this situation and this happens to be the most desirable point in ALL of LEED, the 80th point.
Thank you.
Khaled Fouda
Design Engineer, LEED AP (BD+C)Energy Concepts
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February 25, 2015 - 9:32 am
Answer is no.
But in such a critical situation with this very small percentage, I would recommend you to review your schedules, first have a look at your LEED report and find out where the major saving happens. Change the schedule slightly in the both cases (B & P) to get your result rounded as you wish.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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February 25, 2015 - 9:36 am
Not sure how many decimal points the EAp2 form calculates to but yes the answer is no.
That said any competent energy modeler should be able to find a minor change (within the rules) that would produce a slight increase in the savings.
Haojie Wang
Energy ModelerKJWW Engineering
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February 27, 2015 - 9:34 am
Thanks. That was what I did to increase the saving slightly. Some software like Trace, will round up to .1% and I don't know if LEEDonline form will do the same (I think it calculated by itself from the cost entered). E.g. Trace reports 20.0% while actually is 19.96%. If leedonline doesn't do that, I will need to revisit the model and redo the simulation to increase that .04%.