I am on a project that has a medical campus of seven buildings of which five will require various levels of renovation. Can all five buildings be under one LEED certification or do they all need seperate documentation, LEED Project Boundaries, etc.?
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Susan Walter
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August 20, 2013 - 1:17 pm
Are they one contiguous building or all are separate? What level of remodel will you be doing?
Christopher Striegel
August 20, 2013 - 2:03 pm
They are all seperate buildings with the Main building being less than 40% of heavy renovation but the other 6 buildings are more than 40% of heavy renovation.
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
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August 20, 2013 - 2:29 pm
Sounds to me like they will need to be separate registrations. Since I do not know what you mean by heavy renovation, consider how you are impacted by NC or HC guidelines and compare them against the EB+OM guideline. I have a hospital tower that met the NC requirements due to new windows, roof, MEP and repairs to the exterior building envelope but I wish now that I had pushed harder for EB+OM for that project. There are a lot of operation initiatives in EB+OM so you'll have to discuss those items with your owner.
Also, go and read up on the AGMBC thread. There is good information over there. You still have to certify the buildings separately but this may be helpful for your.projects
Christopher Striegel
August 20, 2013 - 2:39 pm
Thanks Susan! I will look into those things and compare. What we are hoping to do is to do a Group certification which states, "allows separate buildings that are substantially similar to certify as one project that shares a single certification." Our concern is if some buildings are under HC and some under CI... and how all that works when doing a group certification.