I have a School project that is approximately 2 floors of a 4 floor building. USGBC seems pretty adamant that all School projects use the Schools rating system. However, this project would normally fall into the ID&C Commercial Interiors rating system. I contacted USGBC help and they said this was an excellent question that they did not have an answer to at this time and that I needed to submit my question formally to them through gbci.org. I am wondering - has anyone gotten an answer to this question?
Thanks!
Melissa
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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July 1, 2012 - 8:25 pm
Melissa, it seems to me that the common sense approach would be to use LEED-CI here. But it's up to GBCI, obviously. I could see an argument for sticking with Schools if it had credits that were more stringent for the protection of children's health, or something like that, but the IEQc4 credits, while stronger in Schools, have an alternate compliance path that basically make them equivalent.