We have a significant office project (NC-2009), which is highly innovative and is carbon neutral, effectively disconnected from the water grid and contains a number of innovations, both world-first and national-firsts.
In order to ensure that we gain all innovation points, we would like to apply for more than the prescribed number of innovation credits. i.e. we would like to apply for up to 20 innovative aspects of the design, even though we know that only 5 points can be awarded.
Does anyone know if this can be done? Is it worth submitting a CIR?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
January 19, 2011 - 9:17 pm
If I understand your question, you want to get up to 20 innovation points validated, even though no more than 5 of them will count.Simply due to the credits and points that are available, and the forms that match up with those, I can't think of a way to do this. Perhaps GBCI would do it as a special request, for a special fee, but I don't know -- you'd have to contact them and work something out, not through the CIR process.Also, you didn't ask about this, but a standard piece of advice is to understand that innovation points are not given for doing something in an innovative way that's recognized under an existing LEED credit.That all make sense?
Clare Parry
Senior Sustainability ConsultantUmow Lai
29 thumbs up
January 20, 2011 - 12:35 am
Thanks Tristan,
Yep, understood. I'll contact GBCI and see what they have to say!