You'll want to give the MPR Supplemental Guidance document a close read, especially for MPR's #2 and #3, but nothing in your situation appears to preclude you from registering this as one LEED project. One construction schedule, one CM, one owner.... sounds like one project.
See http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=6473
The small size of each building is an especially compelling reason to treat this as a single project, as the soft costs for documentation can become a higher percentage of total project costs as the project size gets smaller. Anything you can do to streamline commissioning, materials tracking, documentation etc. will be worth doing.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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May 18, 2010 - 12:22 pm
I would agree with David that a single-building certification looks possible here, but I would strongly encourage you to contact GBCI to run this by them.For earlier LEED rating sytems, there was a multiple building and campuses application guide. It's still available, but hasn't been update for LEED 2009. Thus when questions come up in situations like this, we are left guessing to some extent.Also note at the MPR supplemental guidance document is a helpful resource, but it specifically says: "With a few exceptions, this document excludes guidance specific to multiple building projects."
I would hate to see you go too far down the single-building road and then have to change course.