[Bldg-sim] High Process Loads for LEED

Jason Wendel jwendel at heatheng.com
Wed Sep 29 10:22:51 PDT 2010


I realize this has already been hashed out, but in searching the forums it sounded like they didn't get resolved so I am asking anyway:

The building we are designing has a very high process energy use (60%) because of a large data center and the TV Studio equipment, lighting, and broadcasting.  The process loads stay the same in the building for the proposed and baseline case, so the difference in energy costs between the two (as a percentage) is very low.  Whereas, if the data center energy, broadcasting energy, studio lighting energy weren't included in the costs for the energy usage in the building, the difference would be greater, thus reporting just the difference in energy usage for the mechanical system and building efficiencies.
Is there a way to not count the data center and broadcasting type equipment electrical loads for EAp2?
Previous listings mentioned that in LEED 2009 they were working on creating baselines of process loads for different types of buildings that you could compare your process loads to.  Has that gone anywhere?
FYI:  I am getting 3 points for EAc1 right now, but if I were able to magically delete the extra process loads above the required 25% from both the baseline and the proposed design, I would earn an additional 3 points.
Thanks,
-Jason

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