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Baseline system type

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PJC's avatar

Hi, I have a building that is about 20,000ft2 of office, plus another 10,000ft2 of underground parking that is heated to 50F. Should I include the parking in the area and use System 5 for my baseline, or exclude it and use system 3? I typically would say exclude, just account for the energy, but since it is heated I lean to including it. Has anyone done this before?

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answered 8 years ago

Adam Hilton's avatar

System types are defined off conditioned floor area which consists of cooled, heated, or indirectly conditioned spaces. I suspect that your garage is semi-heated though which is defined as having a heating capacity per floor area less than what is defined in Table 3.2 but greater than 3.4 Btuhft2. Check out the space definition at the beginning of 90.1 for more information.

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