LEED PRM / Barcap Offices, Santander Data Center

Barcap Offices

Barcap Offices: This is Barclays Capital Bank offices in Paris of 15,000 m² area.

Christina Galyfianaki undertook for Hurleypalmerflatt’s LEED assesment team the energy  model for the PRM (Performance Rating Method) of ASHRAE Standard 90.1.
The software employed for the Dynamic Thermal Model was EDSL/TAS. The LEED model was not submitted. The assessment was terminated as the building didn’t satisfy the prerequisites and thus could  not be granted with LEED certification.

LEED PRM TAS Ecodynamis

TAS Dynamic Thermal Model

What is LEED

LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. To receive LEED certification, building projects satisfy prerequisites and earn points to achieve different levels of certification.

Prerequisites and credits differ for each rating system, and teams choose the best fit for their project.
There are four levels of certification the number of points a project earns determines the level of LEED certification that the project will receive. Typical certification thresholds are:

silver-gold-platinum

WHAT IS EA CREDIT 1 AND PRM

The Energy and Atmosphere (EA): Optimize Energy performance is the credit 1. category of LEED and it approaches energy from a holistic perspective, addressing energy use reduction, energy-efficient design strategies, and renewable energy sources.

The credits are granted after a percentage improvement rating in the proposed building is compared wirt the performance rating of the baseline building. The Performance Rating Method is described in Appendix G of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 (with errata but without addenda). ASHRAE is the the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers and it sets standards and guidelines relating to HVAC systems and issues.

 

Satander Data Center

Satander Data Center: This is a 14,000m² data centre for a large international bank.  Hurleypalmerflat were the design and environmental assessors engineers for this project.

For Hurleypalmerflatt’s  LEED assessment Christina Galyfianaki undertook the PRM (Performance Rating Method of ASHRAE Standard 90.1), she completed the dynamic thermal modeling with e-Quest but handed it over to the team before the final  LEED submission.

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