I just got the email notifying me of the quarterly addenda with the reminder: "Project teams are required to adhere to rating system corrections and LEED Interpretations based on LEED registration date. It is strongly recommended that project teams follow reference guide corrections."
How are people handling keeping (all of) their LEED reference guides up to date with these addenda? If a firm has a dozen copies of a dozen different ref guides, are people really marking up the changes by hand 4 times a year? Or are there complete online ref guides that are always up to date?
Related to that, if someone buys a ref guide tomorrow, will it be up to date addenda wise, or does USGBC expect them to know that they have to make 5 years worth of quarterly addenda corrections to this new book?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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January 10, 2014 - 2:11 pm
Thomas, I don't know how most people do it. Personally for LEEDuser I review each released of addenda and Interepretations, and have developed over time the following resources for everyone's use. I don't edit my physical reference guide—by keeping up with these things I have enough of a memory for it, and can quickly check LEEDuser for key updates.Many changes to LEED are not significant, so I try to pick out what matters. There are multiple editions of the LEED Reference Guide, but I don't think that a new edition comes out every time they release addenda. So you will find some resources that list addenda according to reference guide edition, with fewer addenda required for later editions.Here are the resources I have compiled:The LEED-NC "Missing Manual" -- FAQs, addenda, Interpretations for each credit.A Guide to the Key LEED BD&C v2009 AddendaA Guide to the Key LEED-CI v2009 AddendaHighlights from the LEED-EBOM 2009 addendaKey LEED 2009 Interpretations