Includes design information necessary to accomplish the owner's project requirements.

Includes:

system descriptions

indoor environmental quality criteria

references to applicable codes

standards

regulations

guidelines

Document defining the commissioning process.

Commissioning Report:

Document that records the results of the commissioning process, including the as-built performance of the HVAC system +unresolved issues.

Specific original design conditions that include at a minimum:

• Temperature (air, radient, surface)
• Humidity + air speed (outdoor temp design conditions)
• Outdoor humidity design conditions
• Clothing (seasonal)
• Activity expeted

(ASHRAE 55-2004)

Total area (ft²) of:

finished ceilings, finished floors, full height walls + demountable partitions, interior doors +built in case goods.

Excluded:

• Eterior windows
• Exterior doors

Ratio of interior illuminance at a given point on a given plane to the exterior illuminance under overcast conditions.

Variables:

1. Floor area
2. Window area
3. window geometry
4. Visible transmittance
5. Window height

Product consisting of wood or plant particles or fibers bonded together by a synthetic resin or binder.

1. Product is inside bldg. waterproofing system
2. composite wood components used in assemblies are included (e.g. door cores, panel substrates, etc.)
3. Product is part of base bldg. systems

The part of a bldg. that is heated or cooled, or both, for the comfort of occupants.

(ASHRAE 62.1-2004)

The area on the project site that has been impacted by any development activity.

• Hardscape
• acccess roads
• parking lots
• non-bldg. facilities
• bldg. structure

Uncontrolled outward air leakage from conditioned spaces through unintentional openings in ceilings, floors and walls to unconditioned spaces or the outdoors. 

Caused by pressure differences due to wind, inside-outside temperature differences, and imbalances btw. supply + exhaust airflow rates.

(ASHRAE 62.1-2004)

Involves the removal of contaminated soil and groundwater.

Treatment of the contaminated media occurs in another location, typically a treatment facility.

Uncontrolled inward air leakage to conditioned spaces through unintentional openings in ceilings, floors and walls from unconditioned spaces or the outdoors caused by the same pressure differences that induce exfiltration.

(ASHRAE 62.1-2004)

The approach used to confirm that the direct line of sight to perimeter glazing remains available from a seated position.

• It uses section drawings dwgs. that include the installed furniture to make the determination.

Parameter between 0 and 1 that indicates the ability of a material to shed infrared radiation (heat).

• most building materials (including glass) = 0.9

Involves treatment of contaminants in place using technologies such as injection wells or reactive trenches.

• minimal disturbance of the site.

Generally manual on/automatic off controls which are used to limit the flow time of water.

• most commonly installed on lavatory faucets and on showers.

A metering and billing arrangement that allows on-site generators to send excess electricity flows to the regional power grid, offsetting electricity flows drawn from the grid.

• Selling electricity back to the grid.

Includes all surfaces on the site with a perviousness of less than 50%, not including the roof of the bldg.

Examples:

• parking lots
• roads
• sidewalks
• plazas

Waste material generated by households or by commercial, industrial and institutional facilities in their role as end-users of the product, which can no longer be used for its intended purpose.

Examples:

• construction and demolition debris
• materials from drop-off recycling programs
• urban maintenance waste (leaves, grass)

material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process.

Examples:

• planar shavings
• ply trim
• sawdust
• print overruns
• obsolete inventories

Total area of: finished ceilings, finished floors, full height walls and demountable partitions, interior doors and built in case goods that existed when the project area was selected.

• Exterior windows and doors are not included.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RCRA focuses on active and future facilites. 

Enacted in 1976 to give the EPA authority to control hazardous wastes from cradle to grave including generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal.

The process of cleaning up a contaminated site by physical, chemical or biological means.

Remediation processes are typically applied to contaminated soil and ground water.

Ratio of reflected solar energy to the incoming solar energy over wavelengths of appx. 0.3 to 2.5 micrometers.

A reflectance of 100% means that all of the energy striking a reflecting surface is reflected back into the atmosphere and none of the energy is absorbed by the surface.

A measure of a material's ability to reject solar heat, as shown by a small temp. rise.

• Standard black = 0
• Standard white = 100

Fees charged by a landfill for disposal of waste volumes.

Fee is typically quoted for one ton of waste.

Particles or flecs that are too small or too light to be removed from stormwater via gravity setting.

Suspended solid concentrations are typically removed via filtration.

• Office and general misc. equip.
• computers
• elevators
• kitchen cooking and refrigeration
• laundry washing and drying
• lighting exempt from lighting power allowance (critical to medical equip.
• waterfall pumps (fountains)

Cost shall be =to at least 25% baseline bldg. performance

Total transmitted light

total incident light

Amount of visible spectrum (380-780 nanometers) light passing through a glazing surface divided by the amt. light striking the glazing surface.

Higher T_vis value indicates a greater amt. of visible spectrum incident light is passing through glazing.

= Transpiration + Evaporation

Accounts for the movement of water to the air from soil, canopy interception and water bodies.

1. Evapotranspiration
2. Increased Albedo
3. Deciduous Trees

SMACNA:

Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractor's National Assoc.

EQ 3.1 - During Construction

Landscaping in ways that don't require supplamental irrigation.

Plants used in xeriscaping depend on the climate e.g. agave, cactus, lavender...

Promoted in areas that don't have easily accessible supplies of fresh water.

• Wind
• Solar energy
• Biomass

• Requires a 2-year contract from the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS). (green-e product certification requirements)

• Provide at least 35% of bldg's electricity

Requires a min. of:  

• 20% of bldg. material to be manufactured

• 50% to be extracted, harvested, or recovered

 -within a radius of 500 miles of a project.

Based on Cost.

WE credit 2:  Innovative wastewater technologies

WE credit 3.1:  Waste use reduction

EQ credit 5: 

Indoor chemical and pollutant source control

1. Employ a permenant entryway sys. to capture dirt, particles.
2. Where chemical use occurs, provide deck-to-deck partitions and neg. pressure exhaust sys.
3. Provide separate drains plumbed appx. where water and chemical conentrate mixing occurs.
4. Provide MERV 13 filters.

EA credit 3:

Additional (Enhanced) Commissioning

1. Develop a recommissioning manual
2. Conduct a review prior to Construction Docs.
3. Have a 5yr. contract in place wiht a commissioning authority.

SS credit 1:

Site Selection

1. Do not develop on land within 100ft. of wetlands.
2. Don't develop on prime farmland
3. Don't develop on lland defined as virgin forest.
4. Previously undeveloped land that is within 50ft. of water body (sea, lake, river)

EQ credits 8.1 and 8.2:

Daylight and Views

EA credit 5:

Measurement and Verification

• Lighting System
• Boiler Efficiency
• Chiller Efficiency

1. Develop and Imiplement M+V plan as specified by IPMVP vol III
2. M+V period shall cover a period of no less than 1 yr. post construction.

Standard of Integrated Spheres

Test method for solar absorbance, reflectance and Transmittance.

Standard of inspection- meter

Test methods for total normal emittance of surfaces.

EQ prereq. 1:

Minimum IAQ (Indoor air quality) performance

Meet ASHRAE 62.1-2004, sect. 4-7.

(includes naturally ventilated bldgs.)

MR prereq. 1:

Storage and Collection of recyclables

Provide an area for recyclables for bldg. users.

• paper
• cardboard
• glass
• plastics
• metals

EA prereq 3:

Fundamental refrigerant management

EA prereq 2:

Minimum Energy Performance

EA prereq 1:

Fundamental Commissioning of the bldg. energy systems.

1. Designate CxA
2. OPR - owner
3. BOD - design team
4. Develop commissioning req. into Construction Docs.
5. Develop and implement a commissioning plan.
6. Verify the installation and performance of the systems to be commissioned.
7. Complete a summary commissioning report.

SS prereq 1:

Construction Activity Pollution Prevention

• Erosion & Sedimentation control plan (ESC)
• ESC conforms to 2003 EPA construction General Permit or local codes.

Control:

1. Soil erosion
2. Waterway sedimentation
3. Airborne dust generation.

EQ prereq. 2:

Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control (ETS)

Opt. 1:

No smoking in bldg.

Exterior smoking areas at least 25' away from entries & operable windows

Opt. 2:

Smoking in Designated areas inside bldg. (must capture and remove ETS.)

no smoking within 25' of entries or windows

Opt. 3 (residential bldg. only):

No smoking in common areas

No ext. smoking within 25' of entries or op.windows.

Seal penetrations in walls

All doors weatherstripped to min. air leakage

MR credit 6:

Rapidly Renewable Materials

Use rapidly renewable materials for 2.5% of the total value (cost) of all bldg. materials & products.

ex:

• bamboo
• wool carpeting
• cotton insulation
• agrifiber
• linoleum
• wheatboard
• strawboard
• cork