Our landscaped site is approximately 80% natively, non-irrigated vegetated. However, 20% of our site landscape is forced (due to owner requirements) to irrigate grass in a fairly in-efficient way (would not meet LEED requirements).
My question is: does the 80% non-irrigated landscape outweigh the 20% even though the 20% irrigated is over the LEED efficiency threshold for that section? Or does the threshold violation disqualify us from the credit?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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September 1, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Eamon, this credit is not based on site area that meets a specific threshold. It's based on the overall amount of irrigation water used on the project compared with a baseline. To determine how the project performs, you'll need to do the calculations.Make sense?