Our specific LEED CI project is definitely less than 75% of the building. But our client for the CI we are pursuing occupies the whole building. So are we Option 1 due to our literal LEED boundary? Or are we Option 2 because the client does have control over the whole building?
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Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5931 thumbs up
October 10, 2013 - 9:31 pm
The cases appear to be based on the project area, so it sounds like case 1.
Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
523 thumbs up
October 11, 2013 - 10:06 am
Great, that's our interpretation too. Thanks for the prompt response.
Katelin Skaggs
EngineerKent Consulting Engineers
July 8, 2014 - 5:58 pm
I have a similar situation. Our project is less than 75% of the building, but the client owns the whole building. Therefore, there is no lease for the project space. There is metering in the building, but not for the specific space. The owner just pays for the whole building's energy costs. Does our individual space qualify for the 5 points since the owner technically does pay for the energy costs (yet there is no lease or base rent for our space)?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
5931 thumbs up
July 9, 2014 - 11:53 am
I do not know for sure but here is my logic. Typically you cannot earn a point without taking some action.
If you are not submetering the project you cannot qualify for Case 1. If you submeter the project from the rest of the building you could qualify for Case 1 and earn the 2 points. I do not think that you would automatically earn the other 3 points but maybe you do based on the credit intent.
Since the owner occupies the whole building you could implement Case 2 and qualify as well under the credit intent.