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Regional Materials - Mileage Info

NC-2009 MRc5:Regional materials
posted by  Mike Maas  on 

What should be done for a product that has numerous locations for extraction. For instance, my steel supplier has 47% regional materials, but the sources are from about a dozen different mills.

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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 1:38 pm

Air Pollution Prevention

NC-2009 SSp1:Construction activity pollution prevention
posted by  Ellen Mitchell  on 

This week I have had two projects returned to me from the preliminary construction review with the same comment. I have never seen this comment before and am a little perplexed.

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Tue Mar 27, 2012, 2:30 pm
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Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:28 pm

No Green-e certification available

EBOM-2009 EAc4:On-site and off-site renewable energy
posted by  Sustainability Provider  on 

Hello, Our building is pursuing for LEED EBOM 2009 vertification and we procure all of our electricity (no natural gas or other fuel type is consumed in our building) from a renewable energy provid

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Thu Apr 5, 2012, 6:53 pm

MERV Filter Replacement

CI-2009 IEQc3.1:Construction IAQ management plan - during construction
posted by  Sheela I  on 

Prior to demo/During construction we have installed MERV 8 on the return air units. But after construction the replacement of the filters is managed by the building management.

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Mon Jun 25, 2012, 7:45 pm

USDA Organic Seeds

EBOM-2009 MRc5:Sustainable purchasing - food
posted by  David Tompos  on 

The company I work for is in the process of applying for certification, and I have a question regarding whether Organic seeds may be counted towards the sustainable purchases: food, credit.

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 7:56 pm

Bathroom within a hotel room

NC-2009 IEQc8.2:Daylight and views - views
posted by  Mark McTeer  on 

In general public bathrooms do not count as regularly occupied space, but what about bathroom inside a hotel room or suite? Hotel lobby?

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 6:12 pm

Blower Door Test in NC?

NC-2009 EAc1:Optimize energy performance
posted by  Ian Johnson  on 

I'm working on a renovation of an existing building pursuing LEED NC. The clients would like to perform a blower door test prior to drywall installation to improve the building's thermal envelope.

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 6:58 pm

Lighting Power Allowance

NC-2009 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  David Weigel, PE  on 

I am working on a new facility that is mixed-use health care, research laboratory, and conference center. Computing lighting power density by either space-by-space or whole-building method yields

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Wed Mar 21, 2012, 8:52 pm

Project can't meet Outside Air Requirements

CI-2009 IEQp1:Minimum indoor air quality performance
posted by  Rob Hink  on 

We have a project which the outdoor air supply is limited from the base building HVAC system (out of our boundary) and we are not sure if the project will be able to meet the ASHRAE 62.1 requiremen

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Fri Aug 31, 2012, 5:44 pm