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NC-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Performance

Responses to preliminary review comments

David Browne

Architect

CRA Associates, Inc.

LEEDuser Premium Member

5 thumbs up

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March 15, 2016

My engineers' submittal for this prerequisite resulted in a lengthy list of comments, with a requirement that a narrative response to each comment be provided. However, there doesn't seem to be a logical place to upload a response so that the reviewer will be able to find it. I am inclined to tell my engineer to check the "special circumstances" box at the bottom of the form and upload his narrative response there. Is this appropriate? I'd appreciate any feedback, or recommendations as to how to respond to the reviewer.

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Haojie Wang

Energy Modeler

KJWW Engineering

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3 thumbs up

Thu, 03/17/2016 - 13:57

I usually just upload them with all other supporting document in EAp2 under the process load explanation. There is no specific place to upload the response but the reviewer should have no problem finding it if you name it as response to comments or other obvious names

David Browne

Architect

CRA Associates, Inc.

LEEDuser Premium Member

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Thu, 03/17/2016 - 14:48

Thanks. We'll try it that way.

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