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NC-2009 EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
Hi all,
we are working in a project with 61.8% of the floor area for renovation and 38.1% is new construction. Our cost savings is 9.43% but the EAp2 form does not allow us to check compliance with the prerequisite. Should our cost savings be bigger than 10%? Otherwise why does the form not allow us to mark as "Yes"?
Any help will be appreciate.
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Jean Marais
b.i.g. Bechtold DesignBuilder Expert832 thumbs up
November 24, 2015 - 3:10 am
You need to break down your area weighted requirement and achievement in the narritive. The form should pick this up with the % split in the PIs, but perhaps it's not that clever.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5914 thumbs up
November 24, 2015 - 8:52 am
The form does this calculation automatically and it sounds like 9.43% should meet the prerequisite requirement in your case. Quite often I see the form indicate a "N" at the end for compliance even though the form appears to be completely filled out.
Where in the form are you trying to mark as "yes"?
CT G
23 thumbs up
November 24, 2015 - 10:23 am
Marcus, thanks for the reply. We are trying to get the form to indicate "Y" at the end for compliance but, just as you say, it indicates "N". Is there a way to resolve this that you know of? Perhaps we should select the "alternative compliance path" option and explain the issue? Thanks again.
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5914 thumbs up
November 24, 2015 - 10:40 am
Fill out the form as completely as you can. For some reason even a completely filled out form does not say "Y". The reviewers know this is an issue and generally ignore it.
Haojie Wang
Energy ModelerKJWW Engineering
4 thumbs up
December 3, 2015 - 11:51 am
I often find this is caused by not filling out PIf2/3. Someone needs to fill out the NC, renovated and unrenovated area in PIf2 as well as the building type in PIf3 so that EAp2 can automatically fill those information. If you use check compliance, it didn't highlight it.