Our project is an apartment building with retail and utilizes its own chiller plant with cooling towers.

Does the shower and changing facility have to be located in the building being certified or can it be located in a nearby building?

What is the pre and post-consumer recycled content of furniture foam? (polymer). Is there an industry standard like MDF or steel?

Can US projects use products which show compliance with VOC emissions requirement through AgBB (European) testing? Or does it need to be CDPH only. 

We are seeing no requirement to document the ASHRAE compliance portion of the Prescriptive requirements.

I have a college dormitory with 4" face brick, R7.5 ci, 6" metal stud on 16" centers, r19 closed cell spray foam and 5/8" gypsum. Per 90.1 Table A3.3 my u-value would be 0.06.

In South Florida, our local utility, Florida Power & Light (FPL), has a program call Business On Call.  They set it up so they can turn off your A/C for short periods of time..."up to 17.5

Hello all, 

I read and understand the USGBC guidance regarding the selection of bike racks, that “Bicycle racks should reflect best practices in design and installation.