[Equest-users] LEED Paperwork - Defaults Overridden

Tue Jan 18 11:55:43 PST 2011

Yes, I’d echo Bill’s advice here. Estimate a reasonable number and run with it – like the Target Finder score, this information is used as a soft check for the model’s “reasonableness”, but it also depends on the modeling software. I’ve had one question before about why so many defaults were overridden, and my response was basically “you can’t incorporate Appx G or the proposed design in eQUEST without overriding many, many defaults” (the project was accepted).

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From: Bishop, Bill [mailto:wbishop at pathfinder-ea.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:48 AM
To: M. Shields; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] LEED Paperwork - Defaults Overridden

Michael,

My suggestion – don’t waste time on “defaults overridden”. You can’t leave it blank – the online template won’t let you. For my first submission, I put “1776” and “2008” (years – I was feeling patriotic), but the reviewer asked why I changed so many defaults. So I lowered it closer to zero. Try putting numbers less than 20 and change them if your reviewer asks about it.

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of M. Shields
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:31 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] LEED Paperwork - Defaults Overridden

Good Morning All,

I know this has come up in the past and I have seen several responses from going through and counting all of the schedules to just estimating.  Regardless of how you have determined this value has anyone then included a description of how this was done in their narrative, or has anyone ever gotten any questions from their reviewer about how the number was tabulated?  Also has anyone ever left it blank as an unquantifiable number?  I think I could spend days trying to count every default of my model and still be off by hundreds.

Thanks for any feedback,

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