Dear Fellow Energy modelers,<br><br>The following posting has been placed on the USGBC website <font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">(<a title="http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2664" href="http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2664">
http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2664</a>), which allows the use of ASHRAE Addenda for all credits referencing ASHRAE standards.<br><br></span></font><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Use of approved Addenda for ASHRAE Standards referenced in LEED</span>
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<br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Background:</span></span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">ASHRAE currently publishes Continuous Maintenance standards every three years,</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">
with a Supplement published eighteen months after the Standard is published. In rare</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">cases, addenda are published in between the eighteen-month periods. LEED
</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">development and ASHRAE standards development are not aligned and many addenda</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">have been approved that would be useful for LEED project teams.</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Action:</span></span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">LEED project teams are required to use the ASHRAE Standard referenced in the
</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">applicable Reference Guide and are permitted to use addenda within the most recent</span></font>
<br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Supplement to that Standard, as well as any approved addenda published in between the</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">eighteen-month periods. Project teams are responsible for notifying LEED reviewers of</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">
the use of ASHRAE addenda utilized at the time of project documentation submission.</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">If a project team elects to use an addendum to an ASHRAE Standard, this addendum
</span></font><br><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">must be applied to the entire LEED submittal.</span></font></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">This should make fenestration modeling much easier for the Baseline Case for projects opting to follow the Addendum.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Best Regards,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">
Gail Stranske</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">CTG Energetics, Inc.<br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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