We have a Medical institution coming up at Faridabad (India), which contains various types of building, where the construction would be carried out simultaneously for all the blocks. The site includes building such as Hospital, Institutional, convention center and R&D center. We want to register the project under LEED v3. But we want to know that, Should the whole project be registered as single LEED project or each building types have to be registered separately. What will be the correct approach.
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Donald Green
Sr Project Manager / Operations ManagerProgressive AE
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January 14, 2016 - 10:01 am
I would recommend looking into a Campus Project, you register the Master Site for the total project and then you can register each Building Project separately when they are ready and you then take advantage of the Campus Master Site Credits. If you are to pursue V3 be careful as you would need to register all of the projects prior to the deadline. If you have a building project within your Campus and it registers beyond the V3 deadline you would need to register as a V4 project as well your Campus Master Site would need to be brought up to V4 standards to enable you to use the Campus Master Site Credits - otherwise you could register as a stand alone V4 project.
Jon Clifford
LEED-AP BD+CGREENSQUARE
LEEDuser Expert
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January 15, 2016 - 8:57 pm
Neha—Donald’s advice to use the Master Site approach makes great sense since your site includes different building types. This approach allows each building to use a different rating system. For example, you may use LEED-Healthcare for the Hospital and LEED-NC for the other buildings (and CS or CI, if appropriate, for others). The Master Site approach also allows each building individually to pursue different sets of credits and to achieve different certification levels.
If you chose instead to certify all the buildings on the Campus under one rating system, you would probably use the “Group” approach. This approach is permitted when the construction of all buildings on the campus occurs simultaneously, but all must use the same rating system, and all contribute to the same credit set. The Group approach could rule out using LEED-Healthcare for the hospital.
Since the Group approach wraps all the buildings into a single certification, it is probably most appropriate when the buildings are of similar types.
Jon Clifford
LEED-AP BD+CGREENSQUARE
LEEDuser Expert
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January 17, 2016 - 11:51 am
Remember too that it is possible to combine the Master Site and the Group approaches. For example, the Master Site would include all the buildings. If the Healthcare portion includes an inpatient hospital and a separate outpatient clinic, those two buildings might qualify as a Group registered under LEED-Healthcare. The other buildings might qualify to register as a Group under LEED-NC. You might also choose to register one or more of the buildings individually.
Page 6 of the “LEED Campus Guidance for Projects on a Shared Site” shows a diagram of how this might work.