We have a campus with 9 buildings elegible to seek LEED but only some of them will seek the certification (we are still deciding which ones). I have 2 questions:
1) If not all buildings from this property (same owner, same construction contract, it's a set of residential buildings) are seeking LEED, can we still go ahead and seek some credits via master site? Or is the master site strategy only applicable when all buildings from the property are going to be certified?
2) In case it's possible to use the master site strategy, can the LEED Campus boundary coincide with the property line (which will include the other not to be certified buildings)?
Thanks
Eric Anderson
Technical Customer Service SpecialistGBCI
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August 2, 2013 - 12:32 pm
1 - Yes, you can still use the Master Site strategy even if not all the buildings within the site (aka LEED Campus Boundary) will not be seeking certification.
2 - Yes. Please refer to the guidance on pages 7-8 and the third diagram on page 9 of the AGMBC document (http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/Archive/General/Docs10486.pdf). These resources confirm that such an approach is acceptable and explain (in general terms) how/when to account for the non-certifying buildings in the campus credit calculations.
Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira
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August 5, 2013 - 10:08 am
Thanks Eric, this is very helpful information.
However, we still have an issue as far as registration goes. Since this is a residential complex of buildings, there are some buildings that have exactly the same floor plan for all levels, same sections and elevations. They are essentially the same project that repeats itself 2 or 3 times.
For those buildings, is it enough to make one single registration within the block and just inform in PIf2 "Number of buildings as a part of this LEED application" how many buildings of that type are seeking LEED? We highlight that this project has already been registered before the new platform that supports campus and group projects launched in April 2013: https://www.usgbc.org/leedonline/user/login.
Also, we wonder if there's a way to roll over the old registration to this new platform...
Thanks!
Eric Anderson
Technical Customer Service SpecialistGBCI
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August 5, 2013 - 3:57 pm
Unfortunately, there may be only one building per project in LEED Online v3, even for projects that registered prior to the release of LEED Online for Campus. You cannot certify a 'prototype building' and then extend that single certification to additional 'copies' of that same building, either, no matter how similar they are. So, just entering some number higher than 1 in the field you identified in PIf2 will not solve the problem; in fact, it will generate an error message that basically directs you to use the AGMBC if you wish to certify multiple buildings as a single project.
Your inquiry about rolling the project registration over from LEED Online v3 into the new LEED Online for Campus platform to seek Group certification hints at doing just that, and it is an option that may be a good approach to for LEED certifying this project as long as each building individually qualifies for the same LEED rating system, and they're all being built as part of one construction project/contract on a shared site by a single Owner entity, etc. per the Group certification eligibility requirements explained in the AGMBC document (http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/Archive/General/Docs10486.pdf).
Please see our FAQ on this topic for more information about how to request such a roll-over/transfer (http://www.usgbc.org/help/can-i-transfer-individual-building-registratio...). Essentially, the project administrator for the existing projects in LOv3 just needs to submit a request via the Contact Us page of the GBCI website (http://www.gbci.org/org-nav/contact/Contact-Us/Project-Certification-Que...) and we'll guide you through the process.
Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira
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August 6, 2013 - 10:18 am
Thanks Eric! We will inform the client about the roll over possibility and decide what to do.
As far as that field in PIf2, I'm curious now...if the number always has to be 1 since there can only be one building per application, what's the point of asking the question? Or is there any scenario that the number is not 1? What would be this scenario?
Thanks