Hi!
In our project there are no carpets in our scope but there might be in the buildouts for tenants spaces. In PI Form5 (for the precertification) the Owner wanted to have a least control of the Buildouts and we have marked Owner and Lease Agreement. This means the Buildouts (including Flooring) will be handled in the lease agreements and the tenants cannot chose whatever materials they want.
After reading carefully all comments in this Forum and ofcourse the Reference Guide and Templates, in order to achieve this Credit, should there be a statement from the Owner that the Carpets will fulfill the requirements of IEQ C4.3 because this will be fixed in the lease agreement?
What kind of documentation is necessary? A draft of lease agreement? Just a written statement from the Owner?
Generally since we absolutely do not know if there are any carpets coming in the buildouts in the future, maybe leave it totally out of the Certification?
This Credit is in my opinion rather easy to achieve for hard surface flooring and natural stones but this carpet issue is bothering me.
The Owner wants to know as soon as possible because it will be an important criterium to include carpets or forget them for the buildouts.
Thank you very much in advance!
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Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
997 thumbs up
March 27, 2012 - 10:06 pm
Eleni,
For your submission's completeness you will need to include an actually legally binding lease agreement and not just a written statement from the owner. This document usually outlines that when and if the project includes carpet it must be CRI Green Label Plus, and if, the project has hard surface flooring it must be Floor Score Certified. This should be done for all applicable flooring materials that fall within this credit.
Usually I find that these leases are written in such a way as to allow for some degree of flexibility on the part of the tenant but I'm sure you know better than I do about what the owner in this case is requiring. If the owner is requiring specific models of products make sure those products are in compliance so that the tenant can meet the build-out requirements with your owner's product choices.
Please note that LEED does not require you to have carpet in your project to get this credit. In the older LEED versions this was a requirement for EQc4.3, but not for LEED 2009. This credit in LEED 2009 is simply saying that if your project has any of the products noted within the credit requirements (or above within LEEDuser's official Credit Language tab) then those products need meet the credit's requirements for indoor air quality. However, if you don't know for sure that the carpet will not be included (as it sounds here), then it would be best for you to require the tenant to meet CRI Green Label Plus just in case carpet does get installed.
I have found that there isn't really a price premium for CRI Green Label Plus carpet and there are a wide range of products available that would probably suit your and your client's needs.
Let me know if I helped answer your question. Good luck.
Eleni Thomidou
Bilfinger Baugesellschaft m.b.H.2 thumbs up
March 28, 2012 - 5:03 pm
Hi Lauren!
Thank you very much for your answers! For me it is clear now. The owner will get this information and he has to decide what will be. We will attempt the credit accordingly.
There is also an ACP for this Credit since November 2011 (last update of Core and Shell 2009) and we are thinking of using it. We are still in the step of searching the market for appropriate materials. (The project is in Slovakia).
Generally in my opinion almost all flooring products produced in EU or for EU have very good certifications but the main problem is in the testing protocoles which are different than in USA.
In any case thank you and keep up your good job!