TRACE™ 700 and LEED®

As the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) rating system evolves, achieving LEED certification continues to require the most current tools to help maximize credit points. TRACE 700 is continuously being updated to reflect the most recent changes in energy standards, and it meets the requirements for simulation software set by ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004/2007 and the LEED Green Building Rating System. The software is supported by the TRACE C.D.S. team, the majority of whom are LEED APs.

Specifically, TRACE 700 can help document compliance with ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004 or validate the building’s eligibility for LEED certification. TRACE 700 provides multiple features to help model the Performance Rating Method:

• Rotate building automatically
• Reset hot-water-leaving temperatures
• ASHRAE Standard 90.1 compliant equipment library
• Automatically resize fans
• Simulate daylighting
• Estimate cooling coil condensate
• Calculate ASHRAE 62.1 with DCV based on CO2
• Reset supply-air temperatures
• Model extensive air-to-air energy recovery options

TRACE 700 helps to achieve Energy and Atmosphere prerequisite 2 and gain credit points under Energy and Atmosphere credit 1, but there are other credit points TRACE 700 can help attain. Four additional credits lend themselves to the modeling capabilities of TRACE 700.

• Water Efficiency credit 3
  The Equipment Energy Consumption report shows the amount of make-up water associated with the cooling coil condensate. This information may be helpful in achieving this credit.
• Energy and Atmosphere credit 5, option D: Measurement & Verification.
  The model used for EAc1 can be used towards achieving this credit. Reference the “International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol: Concepts and Options for Determining Energy Savings in New Construction Volume III” for detailed information on how to appropriately adjust the model from EAc1 to be used for this credit.
• Energy and Atmosphere credit 6: Green Power
  The model used for EAc1 can identify the baseline to achieve Green Power credits.
• Environmental Quality credit 8: Daylighting & Views Credits are awarded when a specified level of daylighting is achieved. When users create daylighting definitions within TRACE, the program generates a special report showing the foot-candles of daylight present in the spaces with daylighting controls.

Additional TRACE 700 Resources

• TRACE 700 overview
• TRACE 700 trial software
• TRACE 700 Features
• TRACE 700 methodology and calculations (PDF)
• TRACE 700 Version Information
• C.D.S Newsletter
• Trane and LEED