[Equest-users] Building rotations

[John Aulbach]

John:

I am unsure of LEED, but I will bet you cannot use the surrounding building shading for just the complicated reasons you mention. I did a LEED Base Case of a building built into the side of foothills. When I rotated the building for the other directions, I left the undeground parts right where they were, essentially rotaing the foothills.

Otherwise, people might get "fancy" with shading. 

My impression of the USGBC approach is that they are trying to "level playing field" approaches such as this.

John Aulbach

--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Grando, John <JGrando at cosentini.com> wrote:

> From: Grando, John <JGrando at cosentini.com>
> Subject: [Equest-users] Building rotations
> To: "equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org" <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 6:59 AM
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> Hello,
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> I have a question regarding modeling for LEED.  I
> am working on a building in New York City and it is
> surrounded by much higher buildings.  Are we allowed to
> model the surrounding buildings in the baseline and
> design?  If so, when I rotate it, do I keep
> readjusting it so that it doesn’t intersect with the
> fixed shades?
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> It seems like the other buildings should be taken into
> account considering that this building is around 80% glass
> but does not receive a large amount of sunlight.
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