One question I have for documenting that 20% compliance of maintenance equipment and activities meet environmental BMPs is whether GBCI looks at the maintenance and landscaping activities as a whole, or whether each individual activities (e.g., mowing, leaf blowing, weed whacking) are looked at individually. For example, if I spent 25 hours lawn mowing, but none of those hours met LEED requirements, and I spent 25 hours for leaf collection, 10 hours of which were using environmental BMPs (i.e., raking), would that show that I am meeting the 20% required to meet this credit?

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Trista Brown

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WSP USA

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Fri, 09/13/2013 - 16:00

Hi Matt, good question. All of these activities would be considered by GBCI together. So in your example, if 10 of the 50 total hours were spent manually raking leaves and the rest were completed using gas-powered equipment, you would be hitting that 20% requirement. If the other 15 hours of raking were actually completed using electric or propane-powered equipment, you'd be at 50%. Thanks! Trista

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