If within our LEED site boundary we have a large portion of existing grassy land areas to remain as they are, as (SS1 and/or SS2) protected habitat, and we do not add irrigation to these grassy areas, are we earning the Water efficient landscaping credit? Or does it require new landscaping/planting?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
March 5, 2019 - 4:49 pm
The credit looks at irrigation. Plant use is an allowable method to reduce irrigation from a calculated base case.
Are you eliminating irrigation? That would be by far the cleanest approach for this case, especially if you have grassy areas with nonnative turf grass.
Lisa Meniketti
ArchitectSmithGroup
March 7, 2019 - 4:27 pm
The grassland is just a natural hillside native grass/weeds whatever. We are preserving it as is while building adjacent to it and indicating that land as within LEED boundary to be protected as is. So, we're not landscaping and we're not irrigating or changing irrigation status.