I have a client attempting this credit. The performance period for the client is only 3 months but the spreadsheet wants a whole year of "Sustainable Costs" in order to compare it with an average of past years' cost. This makes sense, to compare apples to apples you need years and years. But we just don't have a year of "Sustainable Costs" data to submit. Could we take the 3 month number sand multiply it by 4 to get the whole year? Would we want to explain this with some narrative?
A little confused on how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
December 8, 2010 - 12:22 am
You've got it Ben - Take your 3 months of data and multiply by 4 to extrapolate a year of costs. It's not a perfect solution but its the best you can do (and its what the GBCI expects).
Hatice G.
SCHOLZE-THOST Planen und Beraten12 thumbs up
May 27, 2011 - 3:14 am
Can I also have my performance period from January to April 2011 and multiply it with 3 even if the year 2011 is not ended?
Elizabeth Crenshaw Hammitt
Environmental CoordinatorEPB
75 thumbs up
December 4, 2012 - 6:00 pm
If anyone has an example of this method (3 month - 4 month PP) could you please send it our way? crenshawei (at) epb.net - thank you so much!
Michelle Raigosa
PresidentDesign Management Services
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December 22, 2012 - 4:09 pm
I understand most credits have a minimum 3 month long performance period, but EA Prereq 2 has a minimum of 12 months. So for the purpose of this credit, would we not include 12 months of information for the performance period building expenses?
Hannah Bronfman
Senior Associate99 thumbs up
January 30, 2013 - 2:24 pm
Hi Michelle
The trick with performance periods is that all credits (except EAp2) must have a MINIMUM performance period of 3 months and a MAXIMUM of 24 months, they all just have to end within 30 days of each other.
So for this credit, you can submit 3 months - 24 months of performance period data, but you will have to extrapolate the data if the performance period is less than 12 months.
Hope this helps
Hannah