We have a large school project (340,000 sf) that has been submitted for the design phase review and all design phase points are reviewed and marked as anticipated. Recently the owner requested we design a school board, administration addition (11,300 sf) onto the larger building. Again, we already complete the design review process. The addition is for the school board, so it is not directly administration for the larger LEED certifying building in the certification process. It is administration for the larger district. The new addition will be physically touching the larger project building but will function as its own building. Can we exclude the new addition from the rest of the project and make it non-LEED compliant building? Can we meter off the new addition as far as utilities go? Maybe just resubmit the site credits and deal with the parking, and similar issues? The GBCI replied to just add it to the square footage of the larger project. Non-answer, answer. If we follow the answer, it impacts all the SS, WE, EA, and IEQ credits we already submitted on and we have to redo them all and maybe redesign parts of a building and site currently in construction. Can we change to a campus plan concept mid-review and say the addition is a non-compliant building on a campus and only the larger building is the LEED project?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 24, 2015 - 3:03 pm
Robert, sorry for slow reply. The question is basically about whether to include the admin building in your LEED boundary. You have options—as GBCI suggested it would be cleanest from a LEED perspective to include it in your boundary. It also appears you could make a case for excluding it. If you're going in that direction I would look carefully at the MPR3 supplemental guidance, and ask yourself whether it will entail additional headaches such as separate metering and HVAC.