The building we are reusing for a project is considered as "contributing" to the historic neighborhood. In addition, the neighborhood has been designated as a "blight" area for the purpose of securing state and federal grant monies. We are reusing the entire building, however, the old windows are being moved from exterior walls (replacing them with new, thermal panes) and reusing old windows (single pane) as interior dividers, avenues for daylighting, etc. We registered as a pilot project for this credit but are unsure whether our strategy meets the goals of this pilot credit. Advice??
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Christina Macken
Assistant Project Manager, LEED v4U.S. Green Building Council
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May 3, 2011 - 3:52 pm
Hi Kath - it seems like you are definitely in line with the goals of the credit, particularly the path for reusing an abandoned or blighted building. The goal of this credit is to reduce the overall material resource through building reuse, in this case for blighted buildings. For documentation, you will need to show that you are reusing the required percentage of the building necessary to meet the credit requirements (based on your description, it sounds like you probably would be).