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| EA Prerequisite 1 Fundimental Commissioning: Intent |
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| Verify that the project's energy-related systems are isnstalled, callibrated and perform as intended. Credit: REQUIRED |
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| EA Prerequisite 1 Fundimental Commissioning: Requirements |
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*Designate an idividual as the Commissioning Authority to lead the commissioning process activities. This individual shoudl nto be directly responsible for project design or construction managment
*Clearly document the owner's project requirements and the basis of design for the project's energy related systems. Updates to these documents shall be made durring design and construction by the design team
*Develop and incorporate commissioning requirements into the construction documents
*Develop and utilize a commissioning plan
*Verify that the installation and performance of energy consuming systems meet the owner's project requirements and basis of design
*complete a commissioning report |
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| EA Prerequisite 1 Fundimental Commissioning: Submittals |
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| LEED-CI Template signed by commissioning authority and tenant. Provide a narrative and diagrams indicating how the HVAC system works, what portions are shared with other tenants in the building, what was included in the project scope of work, and if improvements were made in conjunction with the project by others to any common buidling systems supplying the tenant area. |
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Basis of Design |
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| Includes all information neccessary to accomplish the design intent, including weather data, interior environmental criteria, other pertinent design assumptions, cost goals, and references to applicable codes, standards, regulations and guidelines. |
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Commissioning |
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| The process of ensuring that systems are designed, installed, funtionally tested, and capable of being operated and maintained to perform in conformity with the design intent. |
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Commissioning Plan |
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| A document defining the commissioning process, which is developed in increasing detail as the project progresses through its various phases. |
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Commissioning Report |
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| The document that records the resutls of the commissioning process, including the as-built performance of the HVAC system and unresolved issues. |
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Commissioning Specification |
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| The contract document that details the objective, scope and implementation of the construction and acceptance phases of the commissioning process as developed in teh design-phase commissioning plan. |
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Commissioning Team |
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| Includes people responsible for working together to carry out the commissioning process. |
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Design intent |
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| Detailed explanation of the ideas, conncepts and criteria that are defined by the owner to be important. This typically is an expansion of the information provided in the owner's program. |
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Funtional Performance Testing (FPT) |
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| The process of determining the ability of the HVAC system to deliver heating, ventilating and air-conditioning services in accordance with the final design intent. |
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| The full range of checks and tests carried out to determine if all components, subsystems, systems, and interfaces between systems operate in accordance with the contract documents. |
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| EA Prerequisite 2 Minimum Energy Performance: Intent |
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| Establish the minimum level of energy efficiency for the tenant space systems. |
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| EA Prerequisite 2 Minimum Energy Performance: Requirements |
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| Design portions of the building as covered by the tenant's scope of work to comply with ANSI/ASHREA/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004 or the local energy code, whichever is more stringent |
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| EA Prerequisite 2 Minimum Energy Performance: Submittals |
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| LEED-CI letter template signed by the licensed professional engineer, architect or responsible party stating that the tenant space complkies with Standard 90.1-2004 or local energy codes, whichever is more stringant. If local energy codes were applied, demonstrate that the local energy code is more stringent tahn Standard 90.1-2004. |
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| Establishes minimum requirements for the energy-efficent design of buidlings, except low-rise residental buildings. |
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Standard 90.1-2004:
Section 5 |
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Standard 90.1-2004:
Section 6 |
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| Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning |
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Standard 90.1-2004
Section 7 |
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Standard 90.1-2004
Section 8 |
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Standard 90.1-2004
Section 9 |
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Standard 90.1-2004
Section 10 |
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Standard 90.1-2004
Section 11 |
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| Energy Cost Budget Method(ECB) |
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| EA Prerequisite 3 Reduction in HVAC&R Equiptment: Intent |
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| EA Prerequisite 3 Reduction in HVAC&R Equiptment: Requirements |
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| Zero use of CFC-based regrigerants in new tenant HVAC&R systems when within scope of work |
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| EA Prerequisite 3 Reduction in HVAC&R Equiptment: Submittals |
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| LEED-CI letter template signed by a professional engineer or other responsible party, declaring that there are no CFCs in HVAC&R systems that have been installed or renovated within the LEED-CI project scope |
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| chlorofluorocarbon, a chemical compound found in many aerosol products or manufacturing processes and believed to be responsible for depleting the Earth’s diminishing ozone layer. |
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| Ozone depleting potentials |
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| Global warming potentials |
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Chlorofluorocarbon |
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| Hydrocarbons that deplete the stratospheric ozone layer |
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Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) |
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| Refrigerants that cause significantly less depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer compared to CFCs |
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| The working fluids of the refrigeration cycles. They absorb heat from a reservoir at low temperatures and reject heat at higher temperatures |
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| EA Credit 3 Energy Use: Intent |
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| Provide for the ongoing accountability and optimization of tenant energy and water consumption performance over time. 2 Points |
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| EA Credit 3 Energy Use: Requirements |
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| Requirements will be based on percentage of space used within building. Case A will be under 75% and Case B will be 75% or more. Please see reference guide for specifics. |
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| EA Credit 3 Energy Use: Submittals |
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| Submittals will be based on percentage of space used within building. See reference guide for submittals of spaces less than 75% of the building and submittals for spaces that are more than 75% of the building. |
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Energy Conservation Measures |
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| Are installations of equipment or systems, or modifications of equipment or systems, for the purpose of reducing energy use and/or costs. |
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| EA Green Credit 4 Green Power: Intent |
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| Encourage the development and use of grid-source, renewable energy technologies on a net zero pollution basis. |
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| EA Green Credit 4 Green Power: Requirements |
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| Provide at lest 50% of tenant's electricity from renewable sources are as defined by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e products certification requirements. Green power may be procured from a Green-e certified power marketer, a Green-e accredited utility program, through Green-e Tradeable Renewable Certificates, or from a supply that meets the Green-e Renewable Power definition. |
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| EA Green Credit 4 Green Power: Submittals |
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| Leed-CI signed by the owner or other responsible party documenting that the supplied power is equal to 50% of the project's energy consumption and the sources meet the Green-e definition of renewable energy. Provide a copy of the two-year electric utility purchase contract for power generated from renewable sources. |
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