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Requirements
Publish for tenants an illustrated document with the following content, as applicable:
- a description of the sustainable design and construction features incorporated in the core and shell project and the project’s sustainability goals and objectives, including those for tenant spaces;
- recommendations, including examples, for sustainable strategies, products, materials, and services; and
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- information that enables a tenant to coordinate space design and construction with the building systems when pursuing the following LEED v4 for Commercial Interiors prerequisites and credits:
- WE Prerequisite: Indoor Water-Use Reduction
- WE Credit: Indoor Water-Use Reduction
- EA Prerequisite: Minimum Energy Performance
- EA Prerequisite: Fundamental Refrigerant Management
- EA Credit: Optimize Energy Performance
- EA Credit: Advanced Energy Metering
- EA Credit: Renewable Energy Production
- EA Credit: Enhanced Refrigerant Management
- EQ Prerequisite: Minimum Indoor Air Quality Performance
- EQ Credit: Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan
- EQ Credit: Indoor Air Quality Assessment
- EQ Credit: Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies
- EQ Credit: Interior Lighting
- EQ Credit: Thermal Comfort
- EQ Credit: Daylight
- EQ Credit: Quality Views
- EQ Prerequisite: Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control
- EQ Credit: Low-Emitting Interiors
- EQ Credit: Acoustic Performance
- MR Prerequisite: Storage and Collection of Recyclables
Provide the guidelines to all tenants before signing the lease.
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What does it cost?
Cost estimates for this credit
On each BD+C v4 credit, LEEDuser offers the wisdom of a team of architects, engineers, cost estimators, and LEED experts with hundreds of LEED projects between then. They analyzed the sustainable design strategies associated with each LEED credit, but also to assign actual costs to those strategies.
Our tab contains overall cost guidance, notes on what “soft costs” to expect, and a strategy-by-strategy breakdown of what to consider and what it might cost, in percentage premiums, actual costs, or both.
This information is also available in a full PDF download in The Cost of LEED v4 report.
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Addenda
10/2/2017 – Updated: 9/29/2017
Reference Guide Correction
Description of change: Remove the definition for "Measurement and Verification". It is a relic from v2009 and should not be included in this reference guide. Strike the entire paragraph that reads:
"Measurement and Verification
Describe the building’s measurement and verification plan, including the International Performance Measurement
and Verification Protocol option and how the Core and Shell measurement and verification plan will be carried out.
Provide information about protocols that tenants can use to create their own measurement and verification plans."
Internationally Applicable: Yes
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