Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings -- LEED-EB
LEED-EB Operations and Maintenance is specifically designed for the existing building market.. LEED-EB addresses system upgrades to improve energy, water, indoor environmental quality and materials use, and to reduce the environmental impact of a building over its functional life cycle.
| LEED Categories |
Possible
Points |
Certification Types |
Points
Required |
| Sustainable Sites |
12 |
|
|
| Water Efficiency |
10 |
LEED Certified |
34-42 |
Energy and
Atmosphere |
30 |
LEED Silver |
43-50 |
Materials and
Resources |
14 |
LEED Gold |
51-67 |
Indoor Environmental
Quality |
19 |
LEED Platinum |
68-92 |
Innovation in Operation
and Upgrade |
6 |
|
|
Lighting in LEED Points and Prerequisites:
CATEGORY: Sustainable Sites/SS Credit #8 "Light Pollution Reduction" 1 point
Intent: Eliminate light trespass from the building and site, improve night sky access and reduce development impact on nocturnal environments.
Requirements: Shield all outdoor luminaries >50 watts or show that less than 5% of light emitted reaches the night sky on an annual basis, and perimeter illumination levels measured with lights on must not be more than 10% above the levels measured with the lights off.
SYLVANIA Strategies:
Specially designed luminaires, combined with lower wattage light sources, can effectively minimize light trespass. Replacing high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps with “white” sources can be an effective strategy, especially at lower light levels. Make sure not to go below IES recommended levels, and talk with your luminaire manufacturer or representative agencies about these types of options.
CATEGORY: Energy and Atmosphere/EA Prerequisite #2 "Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance" REQUIRED
Intent: Establish the minimum level of energy efficiency for the building and systems.
Requirements: Earn at least 2 points in Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1.
CATEGORY: Energy and Atmosphere/EA Credit 1: Optimize Energy Efficiency Performance
Intent: Achieve an increased level of energy efficiency performance relative to typical buildings of similar type to reduce environmental impacts associated with excessive energy use.
Requirements:
Option A -- For building types addressed by EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager tool, achieve an energy performance rating of at least 69 by using Portfolio Manager
Option B -- For building types not addressed by ENERGY STAR, demonstrate energy efficiency at least 19% better than the average use of typical buildings of similar type.
SYLVANIA Strategies:
The ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager measures comprehensive energy performance for a building, as compared to other similar buildings. The Benchmarking Tool is available online at www.energystar.gov and should be completed first by the building owner or project specifier. In the meantime, determine the baseline installation and identify energy-efficient alternatives by area or fixture type.
Sylvania offers many energy-efficient options for increasing energy performance once a baseline is established.
| HID opportunities: |
Savings |
| Upgrade from a magnetic HID ballast to an electronic HID ballast |
15% energy savings |
| Use Pulse start (or ceramic metal halide) instead of probe start lamps |
up to 36% energy savings |
| Consider substituting high pressure sodium lamps with whiter light sources (CF/MH) if energy savings is achieved and IES levels are met |
varies |
| Substitute with T5HO or T8 for hi-bay installations, making use of (T5HO) electronic ballasts that have lamp switching capability and use occupancy sensors |
~50% energy |
| Eliminate Mercury lamps |
mercury savings |
| Fluorescent opportunities: |
Energy Savings |
| Retrofit magnetically ballasted 12 fixtures with electronic ballasts and T8 |
30-45% energy savings |
|
Upgrade from electronically ballasted 700 series T8s to electronically ballasted FO30or FO28 SUPERSAVER® T8s |
12% additional energy savings |
| Upgrade from standard IS electronic ballasts to QHE (High Efficiency) IS electronic ballasts |
6% additional savings |
| Use T8 IS Low Ballast Factor (BF) ballasts to replace Normal BF electronic ballasts |
12% additional energy savings |
| Higher BF (e.g.1.2 BF) electronic ballasts with high lumen lamps (e.g. FO32W XP) can reduce number of lamps needed, where it’s feasible |
e.g. use 2 vs. 3 T8 lamps, obtain 10% energy savings |
| See T5HO options outlined above, in the HID Opportunity section |
varies |
| Upgrade from 3L electronically ballasted parabolic fixtures, (87W) to 2L “RT5” Volumetric Recessed fixtures (60 /58W) |
33% additional energy savings |
| Incandescent and Halogen opportunities: |
Savings: |
|
Convert all standard incandescent lamps to Capsylite or Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) |
Up to 75% energy savings |
CATEGORY: Materials and Resources/MR Prerequisite #1 Sustainable Purchasing Policy
Intent: Reduce the environmental impacts of materials acquired for use in the operations, maintenance and upgrades of buildings.
Requirements: Have in place an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) policy that includes ongoing consumables and at least one other credit, including MR Credit 4 -- Toxic Material Source Reduction -- Reduced Mercury in Light Bulbs.
CATEGORY: Materials and Resources/MR Prerequisite #2 Solid Waste Management Policy
Intent: Reduce the amount of waste and toxins generated by building occupants and building operations that are hauled to and disposed of in landfills or incineration facilities.
Requirements: Have in place a Solid Waste Management Policy for the building and site addressing...recycling of all mercury-containing light bulbs.
SYLVANIA Solutions: SYLVANIA offers three options including an online prepaid recycling kit solution for small volumes of lamps, a tailored program with Veolia Environmental Services for larger volumes of lamps, and our own SYLVANIA Lighting Services for ongoing service and maintenance, including recycling services.
MR Credit 4.1-4.2 Sustainable Purchasing - Reduced Mercury in Lamps (1-2 points)
Intent: Establish and maintain a toxic material source reduction program to reduce the amount of mercury brought into buildings through purchases of lamps.
Requirements: Develop a lighting purchasing plan that specifies maximum levels of mercury permitted in mercury-containing lamps purchased for the building and associated grounds. The purchasing plan must specify a target for the overall average of mercury content in lamps for the facility of 90 picograms per lumen-hour or less.
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90% of purchased lamps by quantity are included in the calculation
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Screw-based CFLs from SYLVANIA and other NEMA companies may be eliminated from the calculation
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MR-Credit 4.1 -- 90 picograms per lumen-hour (1 point)
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MR-Credit 4.2 -- 70 picograms per lumen-hour (2 points)
Calculation for weighted average is:
Picograms of Hg in all lightbulbs acquired during performance period
Rated hours X mean light output at 40% of life
SYLVANIA Strategies:
The calculation relies on mercury content, lamp life, and mean lumen hours. SYLVANIA continues to lower our mercury content in our lamps and extend their lamp life.
All SYLVANIA lamps can be used in this calculation.
Our mercury calculator can help with this credit. In addition, our mercury chart showing mercury content for our lamps should be submitted with your documentation.
CATEGORY: Indoor Environmental Quality/IEQ Credit #2.2 "Occupant-Controlled Lighting 1 point
Intent: Provide a high level of lighting control by individual occupants or specific groups in mulit-occupant spaces (e.g. classrooms or conference areas) to promote the productivity, comfort and well-being of building occupants
Requirement: Have lighting controls for at least 50% of building occupants, enabling adjustments to suit individual task needs and preferences, or those of a group sharing a multi-occupant space or workgroup area
SYLVANIA Strategies:
Quicktronic® PowersenseTM T8 Dimming and DALI dimming ballasts can be integrated with Daylight Harvesting and Building Management Systems for higher levels of control and comfort. Sylvania Programmed Start ballasts are the best to use when the switching cycles are frequent or unknown.
CATEGORY: Innovation and Upgrades, Operations and Management/IUOM Credit #1 1-4 points
Intent: To provide design teams and projects the opportunity to be awarded points for exceptional performance above the requirements set by the LEED Rating System
SYLVANIA Strategies:
SYLVANIA sales teams can help you substantially exceed the energy performance credit with our innovative energy-efficient and long-life products. For example, Sylvania PLANON and LED products reduce maintenance requirements and provide exemplary lighting with fewer materials to be disposed of at end of life. In addition, SYLVANIA sales teams can help you develop education and training for the occupants of the conditioned space to help them understand the energy-saving and lighting benefits of SYLVANIA products.