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From: Rob Watson, ECON Group, LEED Project Manager at Skolkovo Hyper-
cube project
I have been in the green building business for many years, including twelve
years spent as the Founding Chairman of the LEED Steering Committee. My
firm, ECON Group (EcoTech International), has completed several LEED pro-
jects in Asia and have some underway in the Russia.
ECON has worked with Yuri Bubnov on green building projects in Russia as-
sociated with the Skolkovo Innovation Center and the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Yuri is a local representative for ECON in Russia and CIS.
Our experience with Yuri is that he is competent and diligent in his
work and delivers a good quality product when promised. He is
knowledgeable about Green Building Systems and building engineer-
ing physics.
Yuri has been contracted as an Environmental Advisor for the LEED Project
Team for the Moscow Hypercube project (ID: 1000021072), which is certify-
ing under LEED NC 2009.
Yuri has been responsible for the following tasks:
1) Review the design and construction documents for assessment according
LEED certification system requirements, translation where necessary;
2) Communications with the Owner, General Contractor, BMS Contractor and
Operator;
3) SSc6.1 – Verification of the Stormwater Quantity calculations;
4) EAp1 – Yuri (his company) has been contracted for Executive commission-
ing services, include:
review the commissioning and testing materials of testing and verifica-
tion of the system,
review operation manuals and a summary document with the preven-
tative maintenance requirements,
prepare the sequence of operation of the commissioned systems,
arrange all on-site commissioning works of Client representatives,
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if necessary, act in an executive oversight commissioning position to
undertake additional tests required for LEED,
create a list of issues that needs to be addressed, with recommenda-
tions for how to address the issue.
The commissioning is in process at the time of writing this letter.
5) EAp2 –
Completing the design energy model inputs (Section 1.4) using pro-
ject-specific information.
Verification of the LPD calculations;
Energy process load calculations;
Calculations of the Ug-value for the glazing;
6) MRp1 – Preparing recommendations for the Recyclables collection;
7) IEQp1 & IEQc2 - 62MZCalc Calculations;
8) IEQp2 - Managing General Contractor to implement policy prohibiting
smoking in building;
9) IEQc6.1 – Verification whether controllability of lighting system is provid-
ed;
10) IEQc6.2 – Verification whether controllability of thermal comfort system
is provided.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions.
Sincerely
Rob Watson
Chairman, CEO and Chief Scientist,
ECON Group