Exempt area of 10% in a Group Project

Gabriel Frasson

Project Manager

OTEC

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Project location :

Brazil

November 26, 2015

We have a site that contains two buildings that are being certificate as a campus project. In the ground floor of Tower A there are some stores that we want to exempt of the certification project (maximum of 10%). Making some calculations, this area represent 10,36% of the total gross floor area of Tower A and 5,06% of total gross floor area of (Tower A + Tower B). My question is: for a group project, is the maximum of 10% considering total gross floor area of all buildings or for each one of them? Thank you.

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Eric Anderson

LEEDuser Premium Member

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Thu, 01/21/2016 - 13:03

Hi Gabriel, This question is not explicitly addressed in public-facing LEED Campus Guidance, but like most prerequisites, it would probably be most reasonable to assume that this exception should be met on an individual building basis. Therefore, we would recommend that you use the most restrictive interpretation, which would be that the 10% max excluded tenant area be evaluated relative to the GFA of each, individual building. If you would like to discuss the matter further please feel free to submit a more detailed explanation of the scenario via the Contact page of the USGBC.org website (http://www.usgbc.org/contactus).