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class=280393913-26062008>I have a mechanical room that is conditioned to 95 in
cooling through exhaust fans and heated to 65 with unit
heaters.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=280393913-26062008>Do the exhaust fans constitute as a cooling
system? The system would need to provide a sensible capacity of 5
btu/h*ft2 for the mech room to be considered to be a cooled space, which I have
not yet calculated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=280393913-26062008>The reason I as is that if these exhaust fans are not
considered a cooling system then the baseline cooling system will need to be
modeled to complete an accurate LEED model.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=280393913-26062008>Any suggestions?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=280393913-26062008>Tim.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" align=left><B>Timothy Howe, MS,
LEED® AP</B><BR>Mechanical Engineer<BR>Stantec<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>