Energy Budget Clarifications
Living Building Challenge·clause 1.5·p.247
The requirement
Living Building Challenge Program Manual clause 1.5 — words not shown. Read it at the source. The publisher reserves the right to its wording and sells access to it. The clause is held and cited here, and its words are read at the source.
The clause is held and verified. Only its words are withheld.
What the product must meet
- Applies to
- Interior projects
How it is proven
- Evidence required
- A narrative and calculations explaining how they determined the amount of energy required to be offset, including supplemental calculations, and add the additional loads to the Energy Production and Demand table.
- Who checks it
- Applicant declares — a signed statement from the applicant
How Klar Cite classifies it
Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.
- What it asks
- Meet — a limit, condition or outcome the product must satisfy
- Standing
- Required — must be met for the credential
- Impact area
- Climate Health — the CMF area the clause addresses
Cite this clause
Living Building Challenge · Living Building Challenge Program Manual · version 4.1 · clause 1.5 · page 247 · build 2026-10-05-0439 · https://klarcite.com/r/ff5263aec53926df
Record details
Page 247, ENERGY BUDGET CLARIFICATIONS. Read in build 2026-10-05-0439, harvested 2026-10-05.
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