What is the distinction between Owner/Developer, Tenant and Lease Amendment?
The reference manual says "the party that has design control and oversight of the construction activities for a given system". But then refers to "sole control" by owner, "independent control" by tenant, and alternatively "tenant may have control over a system but the developer may enforce system requirements through a lease agreement, thereby influencing design and construction". So what kind of control are we talking about - sole, independent, or control with influence by other?
Since the latter is my case, future tenant will be guided by lease agreement set by owner for most of the items, do I check Owner/Developer because of the influence on future design, Tenant because the tenant will have control over the system in their TI and Lease Agreement because there is one?
If that is the case, there will be pages of rows with 3 radio buttons checked. That doesn't seem to yield many distinctions in the information given the seeming complexity of the form.
I understand what they are after, but does anyone know how to fill out the form correctly?
Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
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December 27, 2012 - 1:50 pm
And a few more questions about the plumbing section. There are three lav faucets - public lav with aerator, public metering lav with aerator and metering faucets. If I am specifying public metering lav with aerator, do I only address that row? And then what, mark the other two rows as Not in Project Scope? And there's also a janitor's sink. As far as I'm aware, janitor's sinks aren't part of any plumbing LEED requirements at this point. So why include it here?
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
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November 14, 2013 - 7:19 pm
Hi there,
Did you ever get feedback on the specifics of this form? This is my first time filling it out for a CS project, and I'm having a hard time deciding which boxes are most appropriate to check. It's also hard to find definite guidance to use when explaining it to the client, too.
We have the Owner/developer controlling everything currently in the project scope. The future tenants have guidelines given to them in a lease agreement. Their work would not start until the CS project is complete. Most of our questions are between the Tenant and Lease Agreement columns.
It does not appear that any questions on this thread have ever been addressed...
Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
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November 14, 2013 - 8:53 pm
Hi Emily,
I talked to a reviewer and got some guidance, so this is what I did on my recently certified warehouse with one small spec office build out in the corner but otherwise cold dark shell.
So radio button wise, the project doesn't have any lobbies or corridors at all so all that stuff was Not in Scope. Under the Build Out section, I checked both the Owner/Developer and Tenant boxes for everything and checked lease agreement also where applicable. Same thing under HVAC and Electrical except most everything was Not in Scope. With respect to the redundant metered faucet issue, I picked one to reflect our case and made the other one Not in Scope.
After all of which, consisting of checking a whole lot of boxes, I explained the heck out of it in the Special Circumstances. It seems to have worked. Weird form huh? Good luck.
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
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November 14, 2013 - 9:00 pm
Thanks for the quick response!
Yes, it does seem like an odd form, especially without a good description of what LEED considers each column to mean. I think we will go on instinct and do what you did: Explain everything in a little narrative, just in case. I don't think there's anything unusual about our project, but we'll probably do it anyway, just in case, to explain our logic.