Indoor vegetation.

We were thinking the same about it, just wanted to double check it, thanks again.

Tristan,

Our project will implement a lot of green areas outside our leed project boundary. I remember green areas outside the boundary but are maintained by the owner or the LEED building's administration can be counted for compliance with this credit requirement when 2 sqft of outside land is counted as one inside the LEED Boundary.

Please, correct me if I am wrong.

I just checked the credit language and visited the EPA Site, our project is located outside the US (it is in Panamá City, in the country of Panama), so my first question will be:

1. How would someone define what Level III ecoregion the project is if it is outside the US.

Our idea to achieve this credit is the following:

Our site has multiple buildings so it will be built by phases, and our 1st phase (the only one being now built) will apply for LEED-CS certification. Phase 1 and 2 will have adjacents greenrofs.

Our idea is to use the phase 2 greenroof to comply with SSC5.1, the situation here is that phase 2 greenroof will be built about a year after phase 1.

We just checked the MPR guidance number 3 (must use a reasonable site boundary) and it provides some information about buildings built by phases when all phases are applying for LEED certification so it does not provide clear enough information about our situation.

Since phase 2 greenroof will be adjacent to phase 1 we think we can use this area to comply with phase 1 credit requirements. So our question number 2 is:

2. What do you think about using phase 2 greenroof to comply with phase 1 certification requirements?

Thanks Tristan.