CI V3 - SS Credit 2 - Community Connectivity

Neil Rosen

Director of Sustainability

Northwell Health

LEEDuser Basic Member

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October 1, 2012

I am working on a CI project and have recently received a design review which has requested that I modify my credit submission for SS C2. The reviewer states "However, the listing of community services counts the medical or dental office service two times (NS Dental Center, and NS University Hospital). Please note that with the exception of restaurants, no service may be counted more than once in the calculation" I find this an interesting comment on 2 fronts...for one, I have had this exact same credit approved on 2 other projects located in the same building... AND The sample Map for Community Connectivity on page 71 of the ID + C Reference Guide indicates a Medical office # 6 AND a Dental office # 7... Did I miss the memo changing this credit somewhere along the way???

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Marcus Sheffer

LEED Fellow

7group / Energy Opportunities

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Mon, 10/01/2012 - 14:33

Prior approval on a project does not mean it gets approved the next time. Reviewers are human and miss things sometimes. Sometime even the examples in the Reference Guide are not correct but in this case I think it is correct. I do think you are right and the reviewer is mistaken to question this issue. A medical and dental facility are two separate and distinct services. The whole idea of the credit is that people in the building can easily access a variety of services. I think you could pretty easily make the case that people would visit the dentist and the doctor separately. The reviewer seems to be hung up on the "or" in the credit language. One could interpret that as "one or the other" as well as "either one". I would certainly view it as the later.

Scott Bowman

LEED Fellow

Integrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC

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Fri, 04/11/2014 - 15:29

I have to agree with Marcus, perhaps you should ask for a conference call to see if this can get resolved before you have to appeal. That has worked for us on a couple of issues.