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NC-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction

Eye Wash Basins in a Lab

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Aru Sau
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Would a Eye Wash Basin in a Laboratory be considered as Process Water and should not be included in the credit calculation? These eye wash basins are in particular labs in the buildings not inside the restrooms.

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Mon, 02/06/2017 - 16:30

Correct, and eye wash basin would be considered process water and is not included in the prereq/credit as a regulated fixture.
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Tue, 02/07/2017 - 06:07

Similaraly we're not gonna look at emergancy power, because hopefully there are not going to be any emergancies. Carlie, in the EU we're moving toward sanitary systems that do a lot of automated flushing (also of non-regulated fixtures such as this) as well as using venturi flow dividers to keep the systems free of stagnation and germs. Such systems will display a leaching effect on water resourses similar to that of "stand-by" power usage in electrical devises. Is this something LEED is going to have to adress in future?

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