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Good IAQ benefits everyone
Managing indoor air quality (IAQIndoor air quality: The quality and attributes of indoor air affecting the health and comfort building occupants. IAQ encompasses available fresh air, contaminant levels, acoustics and noise levels, lighting quality, and other factors.) systematically during construction is becoming more and more common as contractors gain more experience with LEED. It benefits the health of everyone who works on the site, not just the eventual occupants of the building.
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IAQ Concerns due to LEED boundary
My project is inside a 3 story building. The remodel work spans all 3 floors and City permit drawings show work all over the building and building shellThe exterior walls, roof, and lowest floor of a building, which serve to separate and protect the interior from the elements (precipitation, sunlight, wind, temperature variations).. My client wishes to restrict the LEED boundary to the 3rd and 2nd floor (where the restrooms are). We are putting in new stairs going from 1st through 3rd floor. I can establish a cut-off with regards to all other credits, but my concern is for IAQIndoor air quality: The quality and attributes of indoor air affecting the health and comfort building occupants. IAQ encompasses available fresh air, contaminant levels, acoustics and noise levels, lighting quality, and other factors.. How do you enforce IAQ from the 2nd floor up and disregard it below? Would I be jeopardizing all the IAQ credits and GBCI's acceptance of the boundary and ultimately the project? Thankyou in advance...
IAQ managent - real live pictures
Here are some real live applications for IAQIndoor air quality: The quality and attributes of indoor air affecting the health and comfort building occupants. IAQ encompasses available fresh air, contaminant levels, acoustics and noise levels, lighting quality, and other factors. management during construction
http://on.fb.me/vboaSs
Pre Occupancy Filter Replacement for a Tenant
Is a CI project required to replace the filters of the main building AHU1.Air-handling units (AHUs) are mechanical indirect heating, ventilating, or air-conditioning systems in which the air is treated or handled by equipment located outside the rooms served, usually at a central location, and conveyed to and from the rooms by a fan and a system of distributing ducts. (NEEB, 1997 edition) 2.A type of heating and/or cooling distribution equipment that channels warm or cool air to different parts of a building. This process of channeling the conditioned air often involves drawing air over heating or cooling coils and forcing it from a central location through ducts or air-handling units. Air-handling units are hidden in the walls or ceilings, where they use steam or hot water to heat, or chilled water to cool the air inside the ductwork.? The project is a 5000 sf office space tenant in a 162,000 sf building (no AHU's in the space). All grilles and ducts were covered with MERVMinimum efficiency reporting value. 8 filters during construction (not using the HVAC system was not an option since it serves the rest of the building). The form asks for the Pre Occupancy Filter Replacement Date and what MERV rating they were replaced with. It doesn't seem practicle to have to replace the main building filters, but not replacing them doesn't seem to be an option. What should CI projects do in this instance?
You may be able to get away with writing a narrative that explains the steps you took to protect the system during fit out and why it is not possible to change the filter at the main unit before occupancy. Why is it not possible to change the filter?
Form requires photos of moisture control
Has anyone else noticed that the form requires "Upload photos documenting moisture protection methods. Photos should include date and time stamp. Include representative photos of all methods and at least 2 time periods must be included."
This sounds like you only need to photograph the moisture protection strategies -- kind of misleading if they are going to require all pictures of housekeeping, pathway interruption, etc. If it's a typo, can it be fixed?
I heard a while back that it was not intentional that photo documentation of only moisture control measures was being asked for, and the form would be updated to be broader. However, I would have expected the form to be updated by now, so I don't know if this is still in the works.
IAQ - Visual Documentation
I am working on an existing government project with restrictions on photography within the building. Is there an alternative to providing visual documentation of the implementation of the IAQIndoor air quality: The quality and attributes of indoor air affecting the health and comfort building occupants. IAQ encompasses available fresh air, contaminant levels, acoustics and noise levels, lighting quality, and other factors. management plan.
You need to work with the contracting agent and the building contractor. The contractor can take photographs, have them reviewed and approved for release. Also, focus on meeting the minimum on this credit so there aren't alot of photos, be careful where that camera is pointed, and focus on the prevention strategy. The less specific it is in location within the building, the less likely the base reviewer is to reject your permission to have the photo. Again, your contracting agent is your biggest advocate here. If your project is not going through formal USGBC review but Corp review or some other govt review then let them know when you are seeking permission to have the picture.
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