We recently received technical advice on our preliminary construction review. They asked for documentation to support the regional credit. The contractor's LEED team is having trouble tracking down the required information.
Without this credit, we are 1 point from Platinum certification. I have done my best to wring out every single point for this project. My ID credits are maxed out. My project is v2009.
Are there any credits that could be borrowed from V4 that we could add? Anything that wasn't part of major remodel before that might apply to a conference center?
David Eldridge
Energy Efficiency NinjaGrumman/Butkus Associates
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April 25, 2021 - 7:36 pm
Can you describe a little more about the regional credit?
Deborah Lucking
Director of SustainabilityFentress Architects
LEEDuser Expert
258 thumbs up
April 25, 2021 - 11:02 pm
Am somewhat confused by your description of the issue:
1. Regional Credits are tied to specific credits in the other categories. If you achieve these credits, you automatically get awarded the Regional Credit point. Sounds like you chose a Regional Credit that is related to a Category credit that you project did NOT achieve?
2. If you have maxed out your Innovation Credits, I don't see how you can add another Credit. You might be better off re-examining the Credits you skipped and seeing if you can achieve those.
Good luck!
Renee Shirey
Stantec422 thumbs up
April 26, 2021 - 9:37 am
1. Regional Prioirty credits (which are related to achieving other credits) or Regional Materials credit?
2. Is it possible to hit a higher threshold for a credit you have already achieved? Example: Higher Recycled content (have to find the backup)
Jeannie Rueter
Green Building AnalystAusonio Incorporated
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April 26, 2021 - 2:15 pm
Sorry for not being clearer: MRc5 Regional Materials. The original AP for the contractor listed several items as having the same distance for harvesting and manufacturing, which the reviewer questioned. The person replacing the original AP (at the same company) evidentally can't find the backup for those items. He is now looking at other big ticket items for either recycled or regional and trying to find if anything was missed. Usually we can get regional with the amount of concrete and recycle with steel but not in this case. One of the biggest material expenses was for the glulams installed in the new ballroom. They were manufactured within 500 miles but no one has been able to tell us what forest the wood came from. We tried for FSC glulams but none of the local manufacturers were still certified. That would have been a clear paper trail. So I'm looking for another credit in case we can't prove we qualify for regional materials.
Jeannie Rueter
Green Building AnalystAusonio Incorporated
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April 26, 2021 - 2:35 pm
I'm glad you mentioned Regional Priority credits. Is it possible to target a V4.1 priority for a v2009 credit? We were only able to meet 3 regional priorities. Optimize Energy Performance was not an option in v2009 but our EAc1 Optimize Energy Performance earned 12 pts in v2009. If I read the chart correctly it looks like that Regional Priority would earn 3 pts. Is it possible to get those points without redoing EAc1 in V4.1?
Deborah Lucking
Director of SustainabilityFentress Architects
LEEDuser Expert
258 thumbs up
April 26, 2021 - 3:08 pm
LEED v2009 projects are not typically assigned a LEED Coach, but you could request one, and pose your question to them.
Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
LEEDuser Expert
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April 26, 2021 - 3:49 pm
LEED v2009 - EAc1 uses ASHRAE 90.1-2007 as the energy baseline.
LEED v4.1 - EAc1 uses ASHRAE 90.1-2016 as the energy baseline.
If a project were to substitute ASHRAE 90.1-2016 in place of 2007 I would guess that the energy model would slip a couple of points due to the increased energy efficiency thresholds of the newer standard. So my guess is that if the project were to ask for the EAc1 Regional Priority credit of v4.1 then they would have to re-do the energy model so that it is based against 90.1-2016 requirements.
I wonder if you could share your scorecard ... so that perhaps the LEED community could put their collective eyes together in hopes of finding the most valuable point in the entire rating system - THE 80th POINT.