<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">In my opinion the <i>system type 8</i> would be applicable. As the <i>total conditioned area </i>is not explicitly mentioned so i presume it is more than 150,000 sqft (above grade floor+basement floor areas).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Here are couple of reason which i could think of:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">i) per G3.1.1,  HVAC systems in the baseline building design shall be based on usage, number of floors, conditioned floor area, and heating source as specified in Table G3.1.1A and shall conform with the system descriptions in Table G3.1.1B. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">ii) per Table G3.1.1A, system 8 would be applicable if either of the condition is met number of floors OR conditioned area OR both</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">iii) exception G3.1.1a would be applicable once you are decided with the <i>predominant system type</i> based on number of floors or conditioned area OR both per section </font><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">G3.1.1. I strongly feel that exceptions are applicable only when the modeling scenario can not be addressed by the main sections which in your case is G3.1.1. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hope this helps!</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Santiago Velez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santiagogvelez@gmail.com" target="_blank">santiagogvelez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What is in your opinion the baseline for the following building:</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Floor area:12,000 sqm (130,000 sqft)<br>Floors: 5 above grade, mostly conditioned. 5 underground parking, mostly unconditioned apart from some conditioned spaces in the first below grade floor.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Predominant Use: Office (85% of sqft),<br>Secondary use: bank in PB and below grade; Kitchen, below grade; control security room, below grade.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm in between baseline 6 or 8. If conditioned spaces below grade fall under exceptions to G3.1.1 b. then can I consider for the baseline that the predominant building has 5 floors instead of 6?</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks in advance.</font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Santiago.</font></p></font></span></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><div style="font-style:italic"><i><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><br></font></i></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Javed Iqbal, LEED AP, CEA<br>Sr. Energy Analyst</font><br><br></font></div></div>
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