[Equest-users] Building Seperation

[Dahlstrom, Aaron]

Jesse - hate to be generic, but perhaps you haven't seen this doc -  http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=6473 - "LEED Supplemental Guidance to Minimum Program Requirements." 

I believe it defines the minimum understanding of what a "complete" building consists of. 

I know we used it recently to determine it was acceptable to exclude a small existing unconnected ancillary building on a site from the project LEED footprint / LEED boundary.

I also know there is some flexibility in this standard, as I've seen it change over the last two years...

Aaron Dahlstrom , PE, LEED(r) AP
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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of modeling at jeisenhart.com
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:06 PM
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Subject: [Equest-users] Building Seperation

Good Day All,

I'm wondering if anyone might have some support regarding a fairly basic question that I can't seem to get closure.
I have a project that is two large new buildings connected by a conditioned breezeway.  One building is proving to be more efficient when compared to the baseline than the other.
Does ASHRAE 90.1-2007 or LEED-NC 2009 dictate whether or not to separate such a structure into two buildings?  Is it the modeler's choice?  I need to know if it's required to separate the two or if it's not.
Both buildings are over 150k sqft so they should use the same baseline HVAC.

Best,
Jesse Eisenhart

(some tags to help people searching the posts after this response:
multiple buildings, breeze-way, breezeway, breeze way, campus, model)


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