Can we meet this credit using an historic building from other country? We need to submit any document certifying that is an histoic building? We can use our national historic preservation codes though less strict than the USA codes?
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Eliot Allen
LEED AP-ND, PrincipalCriterion Planners
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August 25, 2013 - 6:02 pm
Jose, for a non-U.S. project to satisfy GIBc6, you need to provide documentation of an official historic designation by a government body, and demonstrate protection of the building in a manner equivalent to the U.S. procedures described in the credit. If your national or local historic preservation codes are not equivalent to U.S. standards, the 'gap' might be filled by a special government or developer commitment that is sufficiently binding so as to effectively reach equivalency. Such an approach, however, should be reviewed first with USGBC/GBCI staff before embarking on it. And be sure to review the March 2013 GIBc6 guidance at http://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-neighborhood-development-and-histori...
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