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NC-2009 SSc2:Development Density and Community Connectivity

Multiple Buildings - Group certification

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Jean-Baptiste Noel
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We are working on a project that has three different buildings on a previously developed site, for which we want to submit a Group Certification; it is mentionned in the associated guide that the 'whole site' needs to be considered as previously developed, but it doesn't show how the criteria needs to be applied. The 1/2 mile radius is usually from the main building entrance, but where should it start from when there are 3 buildings? Thanks a lot.

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Tue, 01/22/2013 - 15:01

One question - are you trying to submit the three buildings as a single LEED project? Even though GBCI released the Multiple Building Campus Guide in 2011 and stated that LEED online would support a multiple building application beginning the first quarter of 2012, that capability is still not available. Until it is, I believe that you will need to register all three of these projects separately even though you can set up a master project which allows you to have the documentation of some site credits applied to all three buildings. In this case the half mile radius will be different for each project site.
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Patrick MacPherson
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Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:46

Within the Reference Guide, under Implementation - Option 2, there is a description of how to handle multiple buildings. You draw the circle from each building's entrances and the sum of all those circles is your usable area for the mutliple building project.

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