Sorry to repost the question anyone out there have any suggestions please?
We have registered a campus level project (football Academy) with multiple buildings using 2010 AGMBC with the aspiration of a single Certification for the entire development.
The site includes 2 smaller training buildings/stadium, 2 central training buildings /stadium. It also consists of 2 outdoor football pitches within the stadiums as well as 4 outdoor football pitches around the stadiums.
A. Do we have to include these football pitches into the master site GFA?
B. Do we have to include the pitches into LEED Project boundary?
C. If excluded from the LEED project boundary can we still take them into consideration while calculating for the following 2 credits?
SSc5.1: Site Development - Protect or Restore Habitat
SSc5.2: Site Development - Maximize Open Space
Thanks
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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August 31, 2012 - 7:39 pm
If you want a single certification for the entire project, you would follow the Group Project guidelines in the AGMBC, which is slightly different than the Master Site with Campus Credits path.
A Group Project is useful for a cluster of very similar buildings, all built at the same time with one contract. You would need to include those football pitches in the Group Project LEED Project Boundary if you want to use them for credits such as SSc5.
Check the AGMBC page 10 to see if your project could register as single Group project, or whether you need to do a Campus certification with a master site and separate certifications for each building.
If you pursue a Campus/ master site path, you would have multiple LEED certifications - probably one for each building - and one Master Site campus LEED boundary that would include all the athletic fields, parking, other buildings and open space that are part of the campus.
Post back here if that still doesn't make sense....
Ameet AA
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September 19, 2012 - 10:44 am
Hi David,
Thank you so much for your reply. To be honest I am confused due to unavailability of Group registration online tool.
I quote from USGBC website ''Until functionality is available in LEED Online to certify group projects, please note that all buildings must be registered individually''
Therefore it seems that we have no choice other than registering the individual building registration / master site path.
Any advice that would help me to upgrade the current project registration (Block- master site - each individual building path) to group registration in near future?
As the client wish to have single certification for the entire development.
am I in wrong direction to think that group registration also requires to create( block-mastersite-group) approach?
Thank you!