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Ashwini Arun
WSP
Senior Sustainability Manager
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Intent
To encourage projects to achieve exceptional or innovative performance. To encourage integration of LEED expertise and collaboration toward project priorities.
Requirements
LEED Accredited Professional
At least one principal participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited Professional (AP) with a specialty in Operations and Maintenance.
AND
Innovation Strategy
Achieve significant, measurable environmental performance using a strategy not addressed in the rating system, including prerequisites, base points, and strategies contributing to the scores within the five performance categories.
Identify the following:
- the intent of the proposed innovation strategy;
- proposed requirements for compliance;
- submittals to demonstrate compliance and proposed metric(s) for tracking (if applicable); and
- the design approach or strategies used to meet the requirements.
Examples of strategies may be found in the Innovation Catalog.
OR
Pilot Credit
Register for, achieve, and submit a feedback survey for one eligible pilot credit from USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit Library.
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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.
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© Copyright U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intent
To encourage projects to achieve exceptional or innovative performance. To encourage integration of LEED expertise and collaboration toward project priorities.
Requirements
LEED Accredited Professional
At least one principal participant of the project team must be a LEED Accredited Professional (AP) with a specialty in Operations and Maintenance.
AND
Innovation Strategy
Achieve significant, measurable environmental performance using a strategy not addressed in the rating system, including prerequisites, base points, and strategies contributing to the scores within the five performance categories.
Identify the following:
- the intent of the proposed innovation strategy;
- proposed requirements for compliance;
- submittals to demonstrate compliance and proposed metric(s) for tracking (if applicable); and
- the design approach or strategies used to meet the requirements.
Examples of strategies may be found in the Innovation Catalog.
OR
Pilot Credit
Register for, achieve, and submit a feedback survey for one eligible pilot credit from USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit Library.
LEEDuser expert
Ashwini Arun
WSP
Senior Sustainability Manager
