Exempting Space for LEED EBOM

Michael McPheron

LEEDuser Basic Member

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February 5, 2014

Our building includes offices attached to a manufacturing facility by a hallway and kitchen area. The initial goal was to just get the offices and kitchen area LEED certified for EBOM. Is this even possible? I would add the manufacturing portion to the exempted areas section of PIf3 however it states that exempted areas cannot be more than 10% the square footage of the entire building. The manufacturing area is definitely more than 10% of the square footage. Is there anything we can do to exempt this space or is there another type of LEED certification we can seek? Thanks!

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

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Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:36

Michael, LEED-EBOM is a whole building rating system, and it is typically appropriate to include the whole building. If I wasn't going to include the whole building, I'd want to have a clear distinction between the spaces in terms of HVAC, services, etc., and not just function.