Hi all,
I'm curious to know if anyone has had experiences with installing and maintaining the Dynamic Plaque. Empirical opinions on the ease, or difficulty, of use would be appreciated. Even speculative thoughts on potential cost saving (in time, equipment, etc) of this budding scheme would be helpful in determining whether this is something our team should be pursuing. To provide an inkling of context, our building had achieved certification in 2011 under v2009, and we're quickly coming to the crossroads of choosing between Dynamic Plaque and recertification under v2009 EBOM. Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this message.
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Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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September 2, 2014 - 11:53 am
Ace, How timely. This discussion is the talk of the town at the moment. In its current format and of todays’ date the Dynamic Plaque (DP) is being touted by the LEED management as ‘continuous re-certification’. The DP will pull five parameters from a buildings operations namely: Energy usage, Water usage, a yearly transportation survey, a yearly recycle survey and a ’human’ experience survey. As you will well know LEED EB re-certification covers all aspects of the building operations including purchasing, mercury content, building cleanliness, green cleaning, pest management, etc, etc….so based on looking at the two formats the DP is a far simpler methodology to recertify a building than by the original LEED EB method. As to cost, it is suggested that the DP will be much cheaper as far less data gathering will be needed and there will be no content for the LEED EB AP to undertake and therefore no LEED EB AP fees. (The DP is to be sold direct by the USGBC to the building owner/operator and with major control companies currently able to supply BMS content direct to the plaque the only possible work that the LEED EB AP could perform is the yearly transportation survey and a recycle survey.) Currently we are told that the GBCI will be ‘certifying’ the DP data yearly with the option to gain increased points and increased LEED rating status. The DP will then enable buildings to raise their current Silver to Gold (as examples) based on an almost automatic process. Currently sold by the USGBC as a $300/month with a three year contract this methodology will be rolled out to the USGBC membership at Greenbuild in New Orleans.