Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

The intent of this point is to achieve increasing levels of energy performance above the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental impacts associated with excessive energy use. Our project is a multi unit residential building at a resort. As such, some of the residential units may sit empty for periods of time when they are not rented, or in use. There will be a building management service that will clean the rooms, before, during and after they are occupied. It will be an operating protocol for the building management service to set the thermostat in an unoccupied unit down, and turn it up shortly before the guests arrive. This practice obviously reduces the amount of heating and cooling that will be unnecessarily provided to units that are not occupied. This is not an automated system, but rather a manual system that would be a part of the operating protocol for the building. When compared to unmanaged buildings of our type, our energy usage will be significantly reduced. Is it appropriate to consider the benefit of the diminished energy use that will result from this practice in our energy modeling, thereby representing this savings to help us satisfy this point?