Natural Ventilation: Option 1 – Prescriptive
Natural Ventilation: Option 1 – Prescriptive
Natural Ventilation: Option 1 – Prescriptive
Review the Ventilation Rate Procedure methodology in ASHRAE 62.1-2004 Section 6.2 and the associated Table 6-1.
Mechanical Ventilation
All material cut sheets should be saved as backup data and may be requested of the project during the USGBC’s credit reviews.
Transfer all the data collected in the Materials Calculator spreadsheet (see Documentation Toolkit) to the LEED submittal template and upload the product cut sheets.
Don’t confuse “recycled content material” with “material reuse”; the two terms have very different meanings:
Recycled Content is material containing recycled content as a result of the industrial process of making the product—for example; recycled-content carpet may be made of post consumer recycled plastic bottles.
Material Reuse is the use or repurposing of material from a previous place or role—for example, buying antique wood doors salvaged from an old church.
Include in your materials baseline budget the materials cost (excluding labor) of all items that apply under CSI Master Spec (see the Resources section for a breakdown of CSI divisions):
Divisions 2–10,
Sections 31.60: Foundations
32.10: Paving
32.30: Site Improvements
32.90: Planting
Division 12: Furniture is optional. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and equipment costs are also excluded.
Your baseline material budget assumptions and material costs should be consistent across MRc3–7.
ASHRAE’s exterior lighting density table (table 9.4.5) lists exterior spaces under two categories. Tradable spaces are those where the average LPD of all those spaces are within the total LPD limits. For example, in parking lots and drives, lighting needs to be a maximum of 0.15 Watts/ ft2. The project may decide to increase driveway lighting to 0.2 W/sf as long as the parking lots compensate with a LPD of 0.1 W/ft2 so that the average of the two is 0.15 W/ft2. For non-tradable surfaces, such as bank ATMs, each space must individually comply with the ASHRAE requirements.
Options 2 and 3 are suitable for small, conventional building types that may not have as much to gain from detailed energy modeling with Option 1.