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LEED Reviews: Appeals, Design/Construction Submittals, and more

Changes during construction

Omar Elrawy

Green Building Consultant | Researcher

GreenA Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

38 thumbs up

November 2, 2015

Dear all, I have a project which is in construction preliminary submittal phase now. some changes are suggested during construction which will affect credits that have been already approved and awarded, but will not affect the points within these credits. For example decreasing roof vegetation area will change the roof layout drawing, but will keep the awarded point as we will be still within the compliant area threshold. My question is that; will this change force us to make an appeal during "construction appeal phase", or not?

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Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

LEEDuser Expert

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Mon, 11/02/2015 - 16:17

You are required to update your documentation of the design credits if anything changed that would affect them during construction. You should do this as part of your construction preliminary submission. You do not need to appeal anything and these credits will get a third review for no additional charge. It is not up to you to determine credit compliance, only the reviewer can do so.

Omar Elrawy

Green Building Consultant | Researcher

GreenA Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

38 thumbs up

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 09:30

Thanks Marcus, You mean by "update your documentation of the design credits" that I can update the uploads (documents), and the values on the credit form as well?

Saud Abdul Rasheed

Sustainability/Energy Engineer, CEM, PMP, LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, Estidama PQP

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Tue, 11/03/2015 - 13:20

Yes Marcus' reply is telling you that you can update the documentation and the form.

Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

LEEDuser Expert

4454 thumbs up

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 14:24

Yep as Saud said.

Omar Elrawy

Green Building Consultant | Researcher

GreenA Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

38 thumbs up

Thu, 11/05/2015 - 10:26

Thanks a lot.