Open & Connected Community for EBOM

On 11/8/2010, we posted new versions of several pilot credits, and 30 brand new pilot credits in conjunction with the LEED Rating System Update, which is now available for public comment. In the public comment documents, this version of the open & connected community credit is only available to residential (LEED for Homes and Homes Mid-Rise) projects. To align with the public comment document, the applicable rating systems have been revised. The new credit includes a blue box listing all of the changes made from the previous version: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=8220. While this credit was open to EBO&M projects, we received several comments from project teams stating that it should not be applicable to EBO&M projects, so we took that into consideration as well. EBO&M, ID&C and BD&C projects that registered for the pilot credit prior to 11/08/2010 may continue using the pilot credit on their projects, but it is no longer open to new registrations under EBO&M, ID&C and BD&C.