Appeal extension or cancel appeal process?

Request an extension on the appeal. You want these credits/prerequisites resolved before your construction review.

I absolutely agree with Marcus, resolve any design issues now, especially prerequisites. This is the time that all the information is fresh in the teams minds, and it will take much less time now than waiting sometimes years before the construction submittal. These are words of experience, so do not make the same mistake that we made earlier in our LEED experience!

We are having a similar issue. We have been denied EAp2 due to the energy model, despite the numbers working out.
Have you had any luck SPEAKING to the review team?
We are trying to figure that out, as it seems much if this could be fairly quickly resolved if we could Speak to a reviewer.

Tyra, you should be able to arrange a call with your reviewer. I wrote about GBCI's greater openness to direction communication in new blot post on LEEDuser.

We have had very good luck with conference calls with the review team, as Tristan indicates. Tell them what you would like to discuss so they have the right people on the call, and they are very open to discussion and making sure you understand the questions and what they are looking for.

It is very common to get several questions on an energy model, and our engineers have gotten good at trying to anticipate the questions, but they always seem to find something to ask. We assume that some of this is a way to make sure that someone can articulate why decisions or adjustments were made as much as true concerns over what was done…or at least that is what we think.

Tyra, we saw your post and received your inquiry via our website. We will reach out directly to you. Thank you for contacting us.