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<font face="Arial">All,</font><div><font face="Arial"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Since it's my first time going through LEED Documentation process, I need to know if my design development procedures are right or wrong. </font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I'am working on equest's detailed mode, hence, I'am not using the DD wizard found in equest, what I did is that I've created two equest files; One for the Basecase and another one for the developed case, then I get the percentage improvement in a separate excel file, which counts for each strategy's impact on the basecase.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"> </font></div><div><font face="Arial"> I wanted to know if this is an acceptable method for LEED documentation, or I'am obligated to use the equest wizard and the equest DD.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br id="ecxFontBreak"></font>Thanks,<br><br><blockquote class="ecxwebkit-indent-blockquote" style="font-size:10pt;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:10pt"><b><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma">Omar AlRawi</font></b></span></blockquote><blockquote class="ecxwebkit-indent-blockquote" style="font-size:10pt;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:10pt"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma">Project Engineer,</font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="ecxwebkit-indent-blockquote" style="border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="2">EA Sustainable Building Consultants</font><br></font></span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:10pt"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><a class="ecxparsedLink" href="http://www.ea-buildingconsultants.com/" target="_blank">www.ea-buildingconsultants.com</a></font></span></blockquote><hr style="font-size:10pt"></div> </div></body>
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