Dear All,
In a single site there will be two buildings and we wish to implement the Master Site for their LEED certification. However, the owner wishes to have Precertification for one of the CS buildings ASAP and we have the data to apply for precertification for this building, but only on an individual basis. Would it be possible to forego the common credits in the Precertification application and not utilize the Master Site approach, and only use the Master Site approach for the Design and Construction submittals? Thus, Precertification for the CS building would not refer to any Master Site, but its Design / Construction submittal would do?
Thanks,
Dion Anandityo
Senior Sustainable Design ConsultantArup
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May 16, 2012 - 9:59 pm
Hi Omer,
I believe you can. One of our projects has a very similar situation: LEED Campus approach with 2 NC and 1 CS project. When we submitted the CS project for Precertification, the advice given to us by USGBC is not to refer to any Master Site as the Precertification will only look at that particular individual LEED CS project. This should work because each project under LEED Campus approach are supposed to be able to be assessed as individual buildings. Eventually, we did submit for Precertification without referring to the Master Site and was awarded Platinum Precertification.
When you submit the Design and Construction submission in the future, you would then be required to refer to the Master Site.
It would be good to register the Master Site, though.. So you can inform USGBC on the intention of using the LEED Campus approach for the Design and Construction submission.
Summer
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July 25, 2019 - 2:34 am
As to continue the question of Omer, does this means that it's any of the mastersite or pre-certification of an individual building will be submitted first? or there's a procedure on how the submission will be e.g. first is mastersite, then after mastersite is awarded, we can proceed with the pre-certification of individual building and so on.