I have a commercial client who is the owner of a new-construction, multi-tenant building entering the final review phase of LEED-CS. I have a few questions about potential ID credits:
1. We have already been denied our attempt at LEED-EBOM MRp1, "Sustainable Purchasing Policy" because it was argued that the owner is unable to control the tenants' purchases.
Instead, we would like to pursue LEED-EBOM MRc2.1 "Occupant Comfort, Occupant Survey", but I am concerned: will this also be denied upon the premise that the owner cannot control the how the tenants maintain their space thermally, etc.?
Would it be possible to achieve either of these credits by adding pertinent verbage to the Tenant Manual, and mandating that tenants agree to the Tenant Manual as part of their lease?
2. We are pursuing LEED-EBOM IEQc3.1 "Green Cleaning, High Performance Cleaning Program" as one of our ID credits.
Can we also pursue LEED-EBOM IEQc3.9 "Green Cleaning, Indoor Integrated Pest Management" as another [separate] ID credit, or will it be deined based upon the argument that IEQc3.9 falls under IEQc3.1?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 21, 2013 - 4:50 pm
Angela, sorry for the slow reply here. I wouldn't be confident about pursuing MRc2.1, since there is a similar credit from LEED-NC that USGBC has clearly chosen not to include in CS. So trying to add that credit back in doesn't seem like a good bet.I do think that you can do Indoor IPM as an additional ID point, though.
Jonathon Matle
LEED CoordinatorPowers Brown Architecture
September 22, 2014 - 2:37 pm
Tristan,
I know I'm circling back late in this, but I was wondering why you say that it doesn't seem possible for a CS project. It's listed in the credit library on the USGBC website as acceptable for CS projects to do so as an ID credit. Has something changed where they've stopped accepting this approach? I haven't tried it on a project in a few years and I'm wondering if they've discontinued it. To be clear, it was more of a building wide post-occupant survey though, and didn't rely exclusively on IEQc7.1 or ASHRAE 55.
Let me know if you have heard differently.