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Example LEED submittal documentation

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Sat, 04/03/2010 - 18:44

Hi BIll, your idea about what a LEED help website like this should be is, I think, very close to what our site offers. I'll come back to that in a second, first a couple of key points.1) LEEDuser (this site) is a membership-based resource at which we aim to be very responsive to the needs of members (like yourself). You want more sample LEED Online forms? We're working to provide as many as we can.2) USGBC is the sole authority on LEED and GBCI is the sole authority on LEED certification. Blank LEED Online forms are their intellectual property and they appear hear only with USGBC's permission. USGBC and GBCI have so far not chosen to provide sample copies of all the LEED v2009 forms that exist. You can only access them via LEED Online, as a registered project. I know from our contacts there that the idea of providing more samples is under consideration, and I've encouraged this based on feedback like yours.3) I would agree that I'm surprised more organizations have not divulged their LEED documentation. One other besides Harvard that I know of is StopWaste.org. A couple limitations of the Harvard site are that all of its projects are from older versions of LEED, and the requirements and templates have changed. Secondly, their documentation examples are only useful for an example for the particular approach  that they took, and for just the credits they pursued. So the usefulness is a bit limited.If you review the "Documentation Toolkits" that are available for most of the LEED credits shown on this site (see the credit listings for lists of all credits, then click through to the credit and view the Documentation Toolkit tab), you'll see that we have provided both actual examples of many credits, selected for relevance to LEED v2009 systems, and also templates that are explicitly designed for the average project—with instructions on how to customize them for your project.Please let me know if this is useful for you and if there is more we can do to help you and your LEED projects.

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