Dear All,

In a high rise building we are working on for LEED certification, each
floor has balcony slabs that provide a great deal of shading to the
spaces in the floor below. The balconies circumvent the whole floor
plan. They are part of the passive features to decrease cooling loads.
Would these be considered "shading projections" and not be modeled in
the baseline building? This is what we wish to do, but have doubts
whether the USGBC would reject this modeling approach?

Thank you,

Omer Moltay, LEED AP BD+C, ASHRAE BEMP