Multiple buildings with common basement

Ann, We have certified a similar project. It consisted of 3 seperate buildings on a block. We decided to certify them as one building based on the following conditions: a) Spaces included in the gross floor area of the project serves a purpose other than parking or the circulation of people is contiguous throughout the structure. We showed that the common parking below the buildings included also showers and technical rooms that are shared between the 3 buildings as well as one common entrance that gave access to the 3 buildings once inside the property. We also showed that several equipment serves all 3 buildings. b) All building components of the LEED project that are addressed by LEED prerequisites and pursued credits (systems, materials, etc) can be treated as one, such that separate reviews of the same issues are not required for different portions of the superstructure. We managed to justify all of the credits and prerequisites counting the project buildings as one. In case you do not meet these conditions, you should either certify as campus or go for individual building certification. Hope this helps

Ann, I think you can certify only the single office tower if you are able to demonstrate that it is seperate from the rest. That would mean separate owner or management, seperate physical borders and sepatate systems. You would then need to include those parts that service the building, in this case, the parking lot for instance.

Hello, Emmanuel. How you have shown in the PIF 2 the existence of three buildings?

Maria, in our case we certified as one building so in PIf2 we indicated one building. We did add a narrative with more explanation about the 3 volumes with a narrative explaining they need to be considered as one building.