Hi.
I have a query regarding assisted living facilities. In the rating system selection guidance it is stated that LEED-HC is "Also Appropriate for" assisted living facilities. Does this mean that I have to use LEED-HC (as any HC-building as of beginning January 1, 2012) or can I choose to use LEED-NC instead? The building will be a assisted living facilities without any medical treatment on site.
RETIRED
LEEDuser Expert
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January 11, 2013 - 10:38 am
I just created an overview class on LEED for Healthcare and spent time digesting the Rating System Selection Guidance. I interpreted that LEED-HC is only required for licensed or federal inpatient care, outpatient care, or long-term care facilities with 60% of more of the building square footage dedicated to healthcare use. This is what the asterisk in the Healthcare Applications Table is pointing out. See the Healthcare Applications Table in the Rating System Selection Guidance -
https://new.usgbc.org/leed/certification/guidance/step-2#table-2. You may have to click the link on the page to get the table to open).
Use by other medically-related buildings including assisted living is optional.
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
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January 11, 2013 - 3:18 pm
Emil,
Assuming your facility is in the same country as your company location in your user id, what does Sweden do for these types of facilities? I think you have to understand that to evaluate it against the US system of licensing to determine if you must. But assuming that you do not have to, are there advantages to HC for you? What system would you use otherwise? There are enough differences between NC v3 and HCv3 to give me pause and I would try and use NC if I reasonably could.