Dry Air Cooler

Ciaran McCabe

Director

Passive Dynamics Sustainability Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

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April 13, 2017

If we use a dry air cooler (for heat rejection) and we meet the other credit criteria can we achieve this credit fairly easily ?

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Theresa Backhus

Sites Technical Specialist, LEED

USGBC

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Fri, 04/21/2017 - 19:12

Hi Ciaran, A dry cooling system typically falls under the "No Cooling Tower" Alternative Compliance Path (http://www.usgbc.org/node/5586086?return=/pilotcredits/New-Construction/all), and not this credit. You can use the ACP as long as your dry cooling system meets all of the conditions listed under Requirements. The general goal is to focus on reduction in water use through elimination of wet strategies like evaporative cooling.

Caroline PIN

In charge of environmental certification on a jobsite

EIFFAGE CONSTRUCTION

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Fri, 07/24/2020 - 15:40

Hi Ciaran, Can you reach the credit thanks to the ACP ?

Aleksandra Prawda

Sustainability Consultant

Jacobs

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Thu, 08/06/2020 - 08:10

Caroline, You can upgrade this credit to v4.1 where no cooling tower is an option to achieve 2 points. I did it successfully in few projects. See this for reference: https://www.usgbc.org/articles/substitute-any-leed-v4-credit-leed-v41 Hope this helps!

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