Our project is a building that literally crosses another building. It consists of a 40 stories building (the LEED building) that comes out of a 3 stories mall (not applying for certification.
The first three floors of the LEED building, due to the fact that is inside another building, have different shapes, and the fourth floow is the one that has the biggest area.
In order to calculate the building footprint, should we superimpose the perimeter line of the first four floors and calculate the area like this?
Any comments would be apprecciated.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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April 5, 2012 - 10:40 am
David, that would be my take on it—to superimpose as you said. I"m sure you've done this, but combing through the LEED MPR supplemental guidance document for any other hints or direction on this would be a key step, as well. Finally if you're worried about how GBCI will look at it, I would send them an email.