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LEED CI v3 in a central London building 3 out of 40 floors

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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:49

Are you using LEED in London and no BREEAM ? Kind of reversed role if LEED goes to UK. The LEED system originated in the early nineties from the UK accreditation system BREEAM

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 15:21

Vivian, You're correct in thinking that you only need to deal with your scope of work. However, for your scope of work, it will be evaluated against ASHRAE 90.1-2007. You will need to provide the detailed calculations necessary for a reviewer to sign off on your project. Paul

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 15:24

Thanks to you both. Yes the project is pursuing LEED rather than BREEAM - standard approach for our American based client. The ASHRAE calcs are proving interesting - fortunately there is version using SI rates.Any further thoughts on the approach would be much appreciated.

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 06:07

So the LEED building is in London and it is for an US client that is part of the Team?

Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:51

Viv, you just need to look at what is in the tenant scope, but be careful with one important thing - if you have no scope in the project for a credit, then you either have to look at the landlord's provision or the credit is not available. For example, if the toilets are not in the tenant's scope, then you have a number of options: 1) if they are good enough to comply with WEp1 and WEc1, then include them in the calculations. 2) if they are not good enough to comply, you have two options - 2a) you get the landlord to replace them (good luck!) or 2b) you exclude them from your calculations. In the latter case, you can get the pre-requisitem, but not the credits for WE, because you're not including all the fixtures that will be used by the building users. Hope this helps, Eszter

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