Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0, v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

As part of our project, there is a large greenhouse enclosure with a floor area reserved for smaller private classroom gatherings and demonstrations, and a larger area devoted to a plant exhibit for pubic viewing. Attached to, and accessible through, the greenhouse are ten small classrooms, each with a view into the greenhouse. These classrooms will be heated and cooled with conventional mechanical system. We have shown the wall between greenhouse and classrooms to be insulated and detailed as an exterior wall. The greenhouse walls will have many operable windows controlled by the greenhouse controls system. These controls will also operate a misting/fogging system, to maintain humidity levels for the plants, and fin tube heating and fans to control temperature in the greenhouse to about ten degrees above outside temperature in the summer and down to no less than fifty degrees in the winter. In calculating perimeter wall and window quantities for EQ6.1, which wall should we consider to be the perimeter wall to satisfy this credit - between greenhouse and classrooms, or at the perimeter of the greenhouse?