My project is a Campus project. All of the credits sought on the Mastersite scorecard are "Awarded" after Final Design Review (and appeal in some cases). What do I do now? Do I still need to submit the Mastersite scorecard for Construction Review? If so, how do I do this as submitting for the Construction Preliminary Review is only possible if I tick one or more of the credits as "Ready for Review" (and I don't seem able to tick "Awarded" credits.
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TODD REED
Energy Program SpecialistPA DMVA
LEEDuser Expert
890 thumbs up
April 12, 2016 - 10:07 am
Credits awarded during the design review do not need to be resubmitted during the construction review unless something has changed.
Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
151 thumbs up
April 13, 2016 - 9:45 am
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what you're saying is that you're working on a Campus project where all of the credits you are targeting/tracking in the Master Site were awarded in the Design Phase reviews. In which case, you have nothing new to submit for the Master Site for a Construction Phase reviews - all of the Construction-phase credits will be achieved at the individual level on your individual buildings.
I would recommend reaching out to GBCI regarding how they would like you to proceed. Since Master Sites are not actually awarded LEED certifications, I could see them potentially just letting you leave the Master Site as-is and just move forward with the individual buildings to finalize their certifications. On the other hand, I could also see the system not allowing you to move forward with the individual projects until the Master Site has completed its Construction Phase. So GBCI might need to help you work through that step (especially if you want to try to get the fee waived since you have nothing to review).
In the future, I would recommend utilizing the Standard (or "combined") Review type for Master Sites where all of the targeted credits are design-phase items. That way, the Master Site can be closed out after that single phase of reviews and you don't have this struggle of how to move forward with a phase where you have no credits to submit for approval. My understanding is that you can still pick either review type (Standard or Split) for the individual projects regardless of what you pick for the Master Site.
Hope that helps! (To contact your review team, select "certification question" and fill in as many details as possible here: http://www.usgbc.org/contact).
Adrienn Gelesz
LEED APABUD Engineering Ltd.
48 thumbs up
April 13, 2016 - 10:02 am
I have a same situation as Kristina described. I would appreciate if you could send us the answer that you get from USGBC.
Thanks, Adrienn
Susannah Goddard
1 thumbs up
April 13, 2016 - 10:13 am
Thanks all for your comments. I have received the following response to this query from the USGBC:
"to answer your question about awarded credits—they don’t need to be resubmitted unless something changes during design or construction that may affect achievement, like change orders or modified strategies, etc."
So it looks like the awarded mastersite credits are "drawn down" to the relevant daughter projects automatically. Does seem a bit odd that the Mastersite will never complete the entire LEED timeline (i.e. stop at Design Review) but USGBC seem happy with this.