Your Documents Now Feed the Credits
Analysis now reads the uploaded documents your credits use, from waste reports and plumbing schedules to material schedules and EPDs, and turns what it finds into calculation inputs. When a fact is still missing, the credit tells you which document or fixture it needs.
Analysis now reads the uploaded documents your credits use, from waste reports and plumbing schedules to material schedules and EPDs, and turns what it finds into calculation inputs. When a fact is still missing, the credit tells you which document or fixture it needs.
New
- Document reads are part of analysis. Analyze All checks the documents your selected credits use, reads the supported ones (or reuses a current reading), and records for each one whether values were found. Values read from documents are marked as not yet reviewed, with their source file and a page reference when one is available.
- Construction waste, water and embodied carbon inputs from documents. Construction waste reports supply the construction waste credit. Plumbing schedules supply the indoor water prerequisite in LEED v4, v4.1 and v5, and the LEED v4 and v4.1 indoor water credit. Material quantity schedules and EPDs supply LEED v5 BD+C MRp2 and MRc2 (Option 2 Path 1) and LEED v4.1 BD+C MRc2 (Option 1). A credit can still need facts the documents do not give, such as project scope or a professional review.
- See and change the document type. Each document shows the type VERTIQ assigned, who set it, and how it was last read. Editors can change the type. Changing to a supported document type requests a new read, and the credits that use the old or new type are marked as outdated.
- Forms can start from your documents. When no Calculation inputs have been saved for that credit, the construction waste and indoor water prerequisite Calculation inputs start from the values read from your documents, cite their sources, and list what the documents do not state.
- A clearer Review tab. Each credit shows the document findings, input issues and review conditions of its latest analysis. Water, waste and material lists name the fixture, waste stream or material when that information is available. Prerequisites state whether they are met, not met, or not decided yet.
Improved
- Units as printed. A plain "tons" follows the project country in waste reports and material schedules (US short tons in the United States, metric tonnes elsewhere) and the program operator or declared scope in an EPD. VERTIQ marks the reading for review, and flags the unit instead of converting it when that context is missing.
- Dual-flush toilets. LEED v4 and v4.1 use the USGBC calculator weighting and say when its 95% urinal-use default is applied. The LEED v5 prerequisite checks the printed full flush volume.
- Several fixtures of one type. LEED v4 BD+C Indoor Water Use Reduction counts each fixture model on its own, as the USGBC calculator does.
- EPD panel. For each credit, the panel says whether the latest analysis used each EPD and why not, and shows GWP with its declared unit. For LEED v5 BD+C MRp2, an expired EPD is used and flagged for review; the MRc2 comparison uses EPDs valid on the evaluation date.
- Energy model checks list missing inputs by room before a run, and a running simulation can be cancelled.
Fixed
- In LEED v4 and v4.1, a prerequisite and a credit with the same name now each show their own result, and Regional Priority credits each keep theirs.
- A document type you choose is kept when you run Analyze All.
- On the supported indoor water prerequisite paths and the LEED v4.1 BD+C WEc2 document path, plan symbols are kept as observations instead of fixture rows, and printed supply boxes are left out of the fixtures.
- The analysis summary counts what actually changed, and an unchanged re-run reports no changes.
- Saved Project Information, including the address, is restored when you reopen a project, and each uploaded file reports its own result.
Results saved before this release show the new labels after the next analysis.