We have a project for which we are about to submitt precertification documentation.
There were changes to the original project boundary because the street will be widened. Can we change the incially registered site area, property area and LEED project boundary?
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Larry Jones
Associate DirectorAtelier Ten
258 thumbs up
January 19, 2012 - 6:44 pm
I would say yes. But you have to be sure that any site credits that are affected by this change are updated as well. For instance if you hardscape area increased, you have to take this into account for SSc5 credits.
Daniela Castro Salgado
Country ManagerJWA
67 thumbs up
January 19, 2012 - 6:59 pm
Absolutely. Thank you Larry.
Do you know if there would be any problem if the boundary changes from Precertification to Design or Construction Review?
Larry Jones
Associate DirectorAtelier Ten
258 thumbs up
January 19, 2012 - 7:08 pm
As long as nothing crazy has happened to your boundary and you're still meeting MPR #3, then my guess is no. Always good to provide a brief explanation of what happened to eliminate any doubt for the reviewer.
Daniela Castro Salgado
Country ManagerJWA
67 thumbs up
January 20, 2012 - 10:35 am
Ok. Thank you Larry. I'll will follow your advise.
Kerrie Kannberg
Hutton Architecture Studio7 thumbs up
May 18, 2012 - 6:14 pm
Daniela, just wondering if you have received your response from GBCI as one of my projects has the same question...
Thanks!
Daniela Castro Salgado
Country ManagerJWA
67 thumbs up
May 18, 2012 - 6:25 pm
Hi Kerrie,
Actually we received confirmation of Precertification yesterday. They didn't make any comment on the boundary changes, however I still have my doubts for the Construction Review...I guess I can only confirm we documented it correctly in one year from now.
If you get any answer before that, please let me know.
Thanks!
J.C. Douglass
Environmental ScientistClark Nexsen
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July 27, 2012 - 9:49 am
We had to make changes to our design based on client comments after we had already received Design Submittal approval on all the Master Site credits for a campus project. Our changes are relatively minor, so we went back and forth about the relevance of adjusting the LEED documentation after it has already been reviewed and approved by GBCI. In the end, we made the decision to redraw the impacted project boundaries, as appropriate, and recalculate the related site credits, so that all project documentation was consistent across all submittals. As such, we are planning on resubmitting these "anticipated" credits for GBCI's review during the Construction Submittal. We also decided to notify GBCI about the changes in advance, via the inquiry system, so they can confirm our approach before we click "Submit". We are awaiting confirmation of the approach - I will post the response here for future reference.