Group Project - WEp1 & WEc3

Emily Hope

Architecture

AECOM

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United States

January 25, 2016

In group projects, the WEp1 form requires data to be submitted separately for each project building. My team understands this to mean that it is necessary to fill out the main form for one building and upload a pdf of the form for the other project buildings- is this correct? The group project guidance says that while each project building needs to comply with the prerequisite individually, the water usage data may be combined for WEc3. However, the WEc3 form derives some of its data from the WEp1 form, which we understand must include only one building- what are we missing? Thank you!

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Susan Walter

HDR

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Fri, 07/15/2016 - 12:32

I think what the GBCI is saying is that each building has to meet the pre-reqs as if they were an individual building. In other words, you can't have a situation where Building A achieves 40% water reduction and Building B achieves 18% water reduction and expect Building A to 'cover' Building B for the pre-req. However, you can look at water savings across the entire group for WEc3 as a group reward. What is difficult is how do you document two things at once. Personally, I would do this the hard way and run each building through the calculator, make a pdf for each one and then to the aggregate calculation that then gets uploaded into LO and then WEc3 can pull the appropriate data. You'll have to write a narration, upload each building's pre-req calc and try to be as transparent as you can.