2 office floors on a 20 stories building

Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer

Edmonds International

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Project location :

Mexico

December 7, 2015

Hello, We have a cliente that is interested in pursuing LEED for his brand new offices. They have been operating for the past 6 months and they do not have any documentation about LEED requirements such as commissioning, energy model, etc therefor LEED-CI is not an option. However when reviewing the options for LEED-O&M version 4 it addresses only such rating system for RETAIL which is not applicable. We thought we could apply for EXISTING BUILDING but reading through credits and all information at the reference buide it applies for offices that occupy at least 75% of the entire building, in our case this office is using only 2 floors out of 18 that this building. What will be the applicable rating system then? We would love to hear your comments on this. Thank you very much.

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Gustavo De las Heras Izquierdo

LEED Expert

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Tue, 12/22/2015 - 19:41

We have exactly the same case. Can anyone please help us with this type of projects?

Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

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Tue, 12/22/2015 - 20:23

Yes, LEED-EBOM is a whole building rating system.You don't have a lot of great options in this situation, unfortunately, unless you can reasonably draw the LEED boundary around your floors.

Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer

Edmonds International

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Tue, 01/05/2016 - 18:58

There is a gap there then, a hole in the system because existing offices inside a building won't be able to certify. The boundary can be perfectly drawn though, two entire floors will be inside the scope, the owner does not own any other floor. The office has a dedicated utility meter for electricity and a submeter for water can also be easily installed. I do have the impression it is possible.

Trista Brown

Project Director

WSP USA

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Tue, 01/05/2016 - 19:23

Hi Michael, Tristan is correct that LEED-EBOM applies only to whole buildings. The rule is that 90% of the building (by gross floor area) must be included in the LEED-EBOM project. See section "VIII. Multitenant Buildings" in the Reference Guide for more information.