Licensed Professional Exemption (LPE)

I've attempted to use the LPE for this credit as the template offers it for this credit, but when I provide my signature after having uploaded a roof plan and then attempt to close-out the template (mark it complete)I receive a notification that the documentation is not yet complete...so I really don't see the benefit of the LPE if you still need to provide all the documention. I am leaning toward taking Tristan's advice above and just submitting the documentation anyway instead of running the risk otherwise.

IF the LEED Consultant is also a registered architect, but there is another registered architect who is the architect of record, can the LEED Consultant sign off as the LPE? or does this have to be the architect of record? thanks

I believe the intent is for the project architect to sign off as the LPE since they were in fact the licensed professional responsible for those aspects of the job.

Tristan, it's been a few months since you posted your response re. the USGBC accepting LPEs outside the U.S. Do you know if this is still the case? If so, it will put to rest my researching this possibility for SSp1 on a project in Taiwan.

LPEs are only available to US licensed professionals. A professional with a US license may use claim an exemption on an international project. Due to the complexity of evaluating the varied license requirements oin other countries, we do not have plans to expand LPEs to international licenses at this time. As Kimberly mentioned, more information on LPEs is available in the Help section of LEED Online: Navigating Projects in LOv3 > During: Tools & Resources > Licensed Professional Exemptions. We are currently working on an updated table of available LPEs.

Courtney, thanks much for the update. We're moving on without the LPE on this project, as the Civil apparently received his license outside the U.S.

Note, we recently published an updated matrix of linkages across credits. The first tab ("overall") of this document lists LPEs and required signatories as well as other potentially helpful details. Matrices for all rating systems except ND can be found here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9300 The ND rating system matrix can be found here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9301 We hope you find this resource helpful. If you find any discrepancies, please let us know via the "feedback" button in LEED Online.

Current LEED Online submission templates are so cumbersome, that we are required to fill in all information off line, and upload the forms.   

We need a LPE signature for our ESC plan documents.   Is it viable to have the civil engineer sign a hard copy of the template, and then upload it as a separate attachment? 

The online templates are a complete disaster, and have only gotten worse over time, not better.  

To use the LPE path, the licensed professional in question needs to go into their USGBC account and add their license type, state and number. Then that works for all applicable projects  & credits going forward. That said, I haven't seen many opportunities to use this yet in LEED v4.