For example a New Construction project achieves 1 LEED point for demonstrating a 6% improvement while Healthcare would achieve 3 LEED points for demonstrating a 6% improvement.

I believe it has to do with design requirements inherent of Healthcare that make ASHRAE 90.1 a bit more challenging to exceed.

Any input is most appreciated.

Thank you!

Dave

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Marcus Sheffer

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7group / Energy Opportunities

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Fri, 08/03/2018 - 17:28

I think that was the idea. Same thing for CS projects too. Also Healthcare has some additional credits and they have to distribute the same number of overall points which accounts for some of the differences.

Dave Hubka

Practice Leader - Sustainability

EUA

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Mon, 08/05/2019 - 21:10

July Addenda issued LI 10493 which allows NC projects with high non-regulated energy loads to use CS thresholds when determining points. https://www.usgbc.org/leedaddenda/10493

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