I am looking to confirm what the Regional Priority credits are for LEED v4. However, I am unable to find any confirmation of the LEED v4 regional priority credits on the USGBC website. The project is located in Fort Collins, Colorado. I appreciate your help.
Representative
Vermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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Thu, 01/30/2014 - 01:47
The RP credit zones in LEED v4 were created using a GIS-based program that allowed for environmental issues to be empirically mapped. This process created RP credit zones that are based on these issues rather than physical location. The GIS-based zones do not have to be geographically adjacent, meaning that ZIP code can no longer be used to identify a project’s RP credits. Instead, the project’s physical coordinates (X, Y) need to be entered to accurately identify RP credits.
Another minor thing is that the applicable thresholds based on point thresholds instead of percentages – so, for example, a project gets the regional priority credit for “the 2 point tier” of XX credit, rather than “the 40% reduction tier”.