We have delegated design of the irrigation system to the contractor but are pursuing the split review process.

"Net usable program area" is defined as follow : the sum of all interior areas in the project available to house the project's program.

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Does anyone know if the total floor plate area for the Non-Inpatient Floors views calculations include the inpatient unit area?

If we are designing a project on a 100% greenfield land, therefore no previously developed area is present.

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There are questions about the quality view of open-plan office spaces. Vision types 1 and 3 require no permanent indoor obstructions. Refer to example 3 in the reference.

I came across a video about treatment area calculation on USGBC website: 

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I am modeling a C&S building for the Construction Submittal, and I have to adjust the Design Submittal Energy Model because the Owner change the brand of the VRF systems.

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To caluclate the Rc-value we need to know the amount of refrigerant and the cooliing capacity. As LEED v4 puts it:

We have a LEED NC v4.1 project that is currently in schematic design, and the Core Shell construction will be completed well before the TI scope.  I recall reading somewhere that we only need