In our earlier process, we skipped a lot of steps in the fact that we only covered one thing and moved on. In this process, we’re going to cover more than one step just because it’s so important. Before we even get started, there’s a question that came up over lunch that made me realize something. When we talked about getting hot water from a heat pump, typically you’re supposed to be able to set it straight to the heat pump, but usually the best and most accurate way is to get it from the backup heat source of that heat pump. This is another reason why you should have a separated and isolated backup plant for heat pumps. In this case, we would have the domestic water requesting hot water from the backup boiler, which would actually look straight through it and get it from the heat pump. Like I mentioned, you are supposed to be able to link directly to the cooling plant but I found that to be not that accurate, or you’d get much less heat than you should in reality. That’s all I have to say about that.
LEED Office
Over break I went and opened the third file, the TAF, and now we have this LEED office, and then I made the Baseline building just based on alternative 1—just so that we were starting with a fresh file. We changed so many things that I can’t remember what would be correct and what wouldn’t be. We briefly mentioned this Baseline building process, at least initializing it, and we are going to go pretty fast here.