[Bldg-sim] District Thermal Energy - LEED v3

[David S Eldridge]

I gave a presentation on this subject in November and the v3 equivalent document was "coming any day now" back then - I haven't seen it yet, although I'm pretty sure someone is working very hard on generating one.  I haven't looked for it since then either.  If not, you can probably use the current Reference Guide along with the 2.2 DES document.

At the time, there was this post from Gail Hampsmire...

http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/2009-October/020350.html

...suggesting you make adjustments for EAP2, etc.  I would assume this includes substitution of the current energy codes for the prior ones when referring to your registered project.  I'm not sure if there will be other major changes to how the comparisons are structured, or changes in the default DES efficiencies.

Also, will the DES plant be included with one of the three certifications?  Then at least you may only have to guess for two of the projects!

David



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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Yuvaraj Saravanan
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:21 PM
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] District Thermal Energy - LEED v3

I am trying to do energy model for 3 buildings in a campus. Each building is seeking separate LEED certification. We have a new central plant with Ice storage which will serve all three buildings. I have a USGBC guideline  "Required Treatment of District Thermal Energy
in LEED-NC version 2.2 and LEED for Schools" dated May 28, 2008, which discusses about how to carry out the energy modeling. I am wondering is there a similar document for LEED version 3. If there is no such document released by USGBC for version 3, then if I follow the aforementioned document, the problem I have is, it reference everything back to ASHRAE 90.1-2004 but LEED V3 follows 90.1-2007. Can anyone guide me how to approach this situation?

Thanks,
Yuvaraj


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