Hello to all,
What rating system adaption is appropriate for the Terminal Building. I was thinking of New Construction, but I read in the “Consideration for LEEC v4 BD+C Airports Project” something about Retail. Is there a right or wrong choice? Or is it up to the project team to decide?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 8, 2018 - 9:33 am
Project teams have a lot of latitude to choose the most appropriate rating system. Given the commercial activity in a terminal, I could see Retail making sense. I would recommend reviewing the respective systems and seeing where the opportunities and obstacles lie, and making your choice based on that.
David Eldridge
Energy Efficiency NinjaGrumman/Butkus Associates
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November 8, 2018 - 4:34 pm
Terminal to me is the main building with the airport ticket counters, luggage handling, security - I'm not familiar with Retail specifically, but unless this was a building dominated by shopping outlets it might not be my first guess. Follow Tristan's advice and run through the checklist for "regular" and Retail and see which points you would qualify for, which aren't fits, etc. and go from there.
Concourses might be higher percentage retail outlets and then with the gates that would be pretty sparse in terms of material.
Louis Haag
LEED Project Manager, DirectorGreenBIM Engineering
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November 8, 2018 - 10:05 pm
Hi Konstantina,
From our experience with airport projects, LEED BD+C: New Construction is the most common rating system used for Airports / Terminals projects. Although Terminals include retail areas, I believe BD+C is more relevant to large, multi-use projects.
For information you can see the rating systems used by LEED-certified Airport projects here: http://www.gbig.org/collections/15144
Hope it helps.