Our first Homes Multifamily Low-Rise project is now in construction. In order to make Homes function well in a commercial-construction environment, we obviously had to do quite a bit of work to integrate the Homes Low-Rise requirements into our specifications.

We are now in design on our first Mid-Rise project (with several more to follow). I am finding, however, that there are some major holes in the information that I need in order to accurately update our Low-Rise specs to Mid-Rise requirements. It is very helpful that there is an actual updated Multifamily Mid-Rise Rating System with the changed credits, but there are documents available for Homes and/or Low-Rise which do not appear to have Mid-Rise equivalents yet. For example:

1. Updates to the Homes Reference Guide itself. There is obviously quite a bit of additional detail in any LEED reference guide compared to its (freely downloadable) rating system document, addressing how credits are implemented, measured, documented, etc. This doesn't exist for Mid-Rise.
2. Submarket Guidance for Low-rise Multi-family Buildings: This four-page document was the only real basis for differentiating between basic Homes and Low-Rise, so to a great extent it has been supplanted by the Multifamily Mid-Rise Rating System document. However, it contains clarifications to credits that are not explicitly changed in Mid-Rise; do those still apply?
3. Verification and Submittal Guidelines: These two documents (one for project teams, one for verification teams) were invaluable as I developed specs. There doesn't appear to be any equivalent document(s) that specifically address documentation requirements unique to Mid-Rise.
4. EA 1.2 Testing and Verification for MID-RISE states simply: “Meet all of the EPA Multifamily High-rise Program Testing and Verification Protocols requirements.” The T&V Protocols is a daunting document. Our Homes provider has stated that this requirement has been changed, but there is nothing formally available yet.

The Homes provider on this project has told me that they are working on developing some of this information internally, but that they don't have anything formal from USGBC yet. Does anyone know any more specifics about any of this documentation?