A project I am working on meets all the requirements for the design (no cooling tower, no use of the latent heat of the evaporative cooling of water, no cooling from a District cooling system). There are a few core and shell spaces that, although there is no cooling tower in the design, the proposed energy model shows that a cooling tower serves these shell spaces in order to model them as neutral in the proposed and baseline energy model.
The intent of this credit is met as there is no cooling tower but technically the proposed energy model shows some cooling from a cooling tower as a technical work-around so that no energy savings can be gained from these spaces. Does anyone have thoughts on if this will affect the compliance of this credit?