Old EB:O&M

Kath (long time no talk). Well you've asked a very 'moral' question. In reality the LEED police are not going to come and tear the old plaque off the wall once five years has passed by....and I know of a few LEED EB V2 buildings who still 'proudly' display the plaque...but in 'perpetuity'?. No doubt the USGBC will not let that pass. A LEED CI is a LEED CI and can be completed in a LEED or non-LEED building...however I question if you will get the 'points' in SSc1 option 1 (Version 3) for completing a LEED CI in a LEED building. So then, (this is why you asked the question)...if you can take SSc1 Option 1 in a LEED NC building...that could be 5 years or more old...why can't you take it in a LEED EB building that's over five years.

Has to be a direct question to GBCI and let them mull it over for a while...sets a precedent that would be difficult to unwind. Let us all know what result you get. Regards

I think a simpler answer to this question is to say that XYX building in this case "was LEED-EB certified in 20xx." If there was no recert requirement at the time, then it also seems perfectly fair to say that XYZ building "is LEED certified," or more accurately and fairly perhaps, "is LEED certified under LEED-EB v1.0" or whatever version. The question that you asked, Kath, with the wording "certified in perpetuity," seems much more loaded and I would not think it really in the spirit of LEED to use language like that—not thaty you were going to.I think over time we'll see that older buildings not staying up to date in LEED might fall out of databases of certified buildings or other public benchmarks of LEED.