We have a signed lease to proceed with a tenant imrovement in a multi-occupant EBOM Gold buidling. We are occupying less than 50% of the building, and construction is taking place in a portion of the building that is shell-space (meaning, no demolition is required).
We just completed CDs yesterday, and the landlord tells us that we need to change all our specs to: include fsc certified wood, ensure no added urea-formaldehyde, cri carpet, etc etc, and comply w/ IEQc1.5.
We are out of the 'performance period', but the landlord seems to think that, for re-certification of the building in the future, we must be in full compliance with their original credit submissions.
Is this true? Does every tenant that occupies an EBOM building have to comply to the buidlings' goals, or are tenants considered outside the control of the Facility, and therefor out of the scope of EBOM certification?
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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January 26, 2012 - 12:59 pm
First thing is you must read your lease VERY carefully. Unless it lays out clearly in the lease that you must follow 'green' there is no LEGAL reason for you to follow those rules, however there are two other aspects. 1. What are you trying to succeed at in your space...LEED CI? if so you will already be following the EB requirements. 2. There is the moral aspect. You're moving into an 'accepted green building', why would you NOT want to follow and support the in house team?