A project of mine is a high-rise residential building with 6 floors of commercial spaces that will be fit-out by future tenants. LEED-NC is the best fit for the project since the residential portion is over 60% of the GSF; the whole building will be included in the LEED scope and the owner will be providing tenant guidelines as required for the commercial tenant spaces. Commissioning is planned to take place for the residential areas and base-building systems that will provide for the commercial tenant spaces, but since equipment installed by tenants is outside of the project scope, it is also outside of the project CxA's scope.
I couldn't find any guidance on commissioning for tenant fit-out spaces within an NC project. Has anyone had success with following a similar method? I don't want any prerequisite surprises during the reviews. Thanks!
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 21, 2013 - 9:14 am
Carly, have you cross-checked the LEED-CI EAp1 guidance for help?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 21, 2013 - 9:17 am
Make that LEED-CS.
Scott Bowman
LEED FellowIntegrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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March 28, 2013 - 4:12 pm
We just completed a slightly different scenario, where the base project was CS, but a major tenant was going for CI. We were selected to be the enhanced CxA for both projects, to different owners. There was no requirement in the lease that the tenant do commissioning or that they even pursue CI, but they did. Interestingly, the CS got Platinum, and the CI got Gold.
As far as I know, you can only commission what is installed in the project, and that could include some systems that are installed for the shell spaces.
Now, we also just completed an NC project that had a small shell space, and for that there was a complex requirement to ensure that a future tenant would comply with all the basic requirements of the building, basically a green lease. There was a LEED consultant on the project, and I know it was fairly intensive what she went through to get this documented, but do not know if it included a requirement to commission the project when it was done. Our only scope was to make sure the heat pump in that shell space was functional, and had no future scope for that space.
Perhaps someone that has some experience with green leases and how shell space is handled in a NC project can help.