The McGowan Center is a research facility that includes office space (40%) and labs, animal procedure rooms, MRI\'s, animal holding, animal surgery, and support spaces (60%). Because the functions within the building are not manufacturing, commercial or industrial, we are assuming that no energy use in the facility should be considered process load. Additionally, all heating, cooling, auxiliaries (pumps, fans, etc), water heating and interior lighting needed for the building should be considered in determining percent energy savings. Some of the requirements of the labs and procedure rooms include 100% outside air, high air change rates and HEPA filtration. We assume that the fan energy, cooling energy and heating energy needed to support these requirements should be considered in determining the percent energy savings, as they are not considered to be process energy. We wish to know if the above assumptions are correct. As background for our assumptions, the LEED June 2001 Reference Guide states "only energy regulated by Standard 90.1-1999 is considered in determining the percent energy savings. The \'regulated energy components\' are heating, cooling, auxiliaries, water heating and interior lighting. \'Non-regulated components\' are plug loads, process energy (including special filtering requirements for clean rooms, etc), garage ventilation, exterior lighting, elevators, and any other miscellaneous energy uses in the building" Standard 90.1-1999 defines process energy on page 10 as energy consumed in support of a manufacturing, industrial or commercial process other than conditioning spaces and maintaining comfort and amenities for the occupants of a building"