One of our project "Business Centre" is going for CI 2009 ratings system. The project owner is leasing a space in a building and doing the interior layout i.e. lighting , furniture and HVAC. The space will be further leased out to small enterprise or group of 6-7 people. So the majority of equipment that is computers are not in the owner's scope. Do he need to put some mandatory requirements in the sales agreement to meet the prereq and EAc4.0 requirement(50%, 70%-90%of equipment to be energy star) or only the equipment that is in his scope such as projector, kitchen appliance etc need to be considered for this calculation.
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Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
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July 5, 2010 - 4:08 am
Hi Gurneet,
I believe that the credit language is fairly clear in stating that it is only the tenant's current scope of work that would need to be included in a LEED-CI application,
That being said, if you can educate or inform the small group of 6-7 people and suggest they purchase Energy Star equipment that would be ideal. In my experience, computers, when purchased new, are fairly easy to specify as ENERGY STAR labeled.
As a reminder, if you do certify under LEED-CI then it'll only be the tenant space under the owner's scope that will achieve the LEED Certification (and technically not the tenant space of the group of 6-7 people) because that is the only tenant space submitted as part of your LEED Certification submission. If you wanted to certify multiple tenant spaces under LEED-CI then you'd need to ensure that all tenant spaces met the criteria and that all tenant spaces were included under all credit requirements (not just EAc1.4).