Use additional sensors if space use and configuration makes it likely that a single measurement point will not be representative. Use separate sensors for perimeter and core areas within a single HVAC zone and equip rooms with additional sensors if they experience internal gains or solar gains that are higher than average for the building.
Presence of a building automation system (BAS) should make air temperature and RH measurements relatively easy. If you don’t use a BAS, you could install sensors in occupied spaces.
Keep in mind that this credit focuses on the conditions that building occupants experience in the course of their normal daily activities, not the measured conditions inside the ductwork or the HVAC system.
If project team does not include a LEED AP, consider hiring a LEED AP to assist with the project, or asking one or more team members to become LEED APs. The LEED AP credential should be earned prior to the start of the project. Doing so ensures that person’s availability in assisting with planning before the start of the performance period.
The LEED AP credential program was overhauled in spring 2009. Although the credential is now being administered very differently, anyone becoming a LEED AP before then is equally eligible to contribute to this credit.
