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equipment category when the project has less than 0.1 W/sq. ft. (1.1 W/sq. m.) of rated load for each individual ENERGY STAR® Products Equipment Category but exceeds this value for the sum of the two categories.
New Construction: Process-intensive buildings Process-intensive buildings such as data centers, restaurants, or refrigerated warehouses have greater potential to achieve substantial building energy savings from a single Equipment Category. Therefore, projects with combined equipment load from the equipment categories in Table 2 totaling at least 0.5 Watt/sq. ft. (5.4 W/sq. m.) of gross floor area may assess compliance based on 90% of total applicable equipment rated load rather than per equipment category. All applicable equipment from all Table 2 equipment categories must be included in the assessment of credit compliance.
Core and Shell The credit rewards efficiency measures implemented for plug and process equipment commonly within the Core and Shell scope of work. Points are rewarded per Core and Shell Table 2 for each equipment category with project scope meeting the credit criteria, up to a maximum of three points. To be eligible for credit, all equipment installed within the project scope of work for the referenced equipment category must meet the credit criteria. For example, for a project with multiple elevators and escalators, each elevator and escalator that is eligible for an ISO 25745 rating must achieve at least a Class-A rating to qualify for points under the people conveyance equipment category.
Equivalence to ENERGY STAR® products Refer to the Project Priorities Library for regional paths addressing equivalence to ENERGY STAR® products.
Case 3. Plug and Process Load Exceptional Calculation (New Construction only)
Case 3 primarily applies to project applications with unique plug and process loads largely unaddressed by Table 2 equipment categories (such as manufacturing or laboratory) or projects where the streamlined methodology from Cases 1 and 2 insufficiently reveals magnitude of impact for plug and process efficiency measures implemented for the project. Case 3 cannot be combined with Case 1 or Case 2.
Project analysts must use the ASHRAE 90.1, Section G2.5 exceptional calculation method to demonstrate a minimum percentage improvement in total plug and process energy usage compared to a baseline representative of standard practice for a similar newly constructed building.
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