Landscape lighting

Julien Daclin

Head of Sustainability

Deerns France

LEEDuser Basic Member

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September 14, 2011

Appendix G (Table 3.1) states that lighting power for building facades has to be modeled in the energy simulation. However, it is not clear if landscape lighting should also be taken into account. Do we have to implement the external lighting of the building grounds (walkways, landscape lighting...)? Thanks

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Susann Geithner

Principal

Emerald Built Environments

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900 thumbs up

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 13:17

You do have to included it. It doesn't matter if it's on the facade or on the site. As long as it's in the LEED project boundary, it is an energy consumption associated with the project. I have worked on worked on 5 LEED CS buildings within the last year and always had to included it.