The project involved the demolition of a existing building that had asbestos present on it. Asbestos were removed prior to demolition and the process was properly documented for LEED. During excavation works, a small portion of soil contaminated (with oil/diesel) was extracted, it was rejected from the landfill and moved to a special facility. A survey of this soil was not conducted. Does this mean the credit is lost or can it be achieved only by documenting this remediation?

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Larry Sims

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Studio4, LLC

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Mon, 02/08/2016 - 17:28

Martin, although the remediation had been completed, the credit is not necessarily lost if you have an environmental consultant confirm the fact that the on-site soils were contaminated and were properly remediated. That said, I can’t predict how an environmental consultant could confirm the on-site soils were contaminated if the consultant wasn’t on-site before the soils were removed.

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