Hi experts, I would appreciate your advice on the follwoing, please.
I am unsure to draw the project boundary in situation described below:
- Entire project site (including dormitory building) will be constructed under the same construction contract, the same time and the same owner.
- Project site is divided by a public road, requirements of MPR3 non-contiguous parcels fulfilled
- Site portion right to the road: main building (90,000 m2) as well as the utility area (process water tank, gas farm, wastewater treatment plant)
- Site portion left to the road: car parking, shuttle bus parking on the lower part; dormitory building (15,000m2) on the upper part - this building is not going to be certified.
Questions:
1) Is it possible to exclude completely the upper part of the left site (dormitory building & greenery) from my LEED project boundary, despite the fact that it will be constructed under the same construction contract, the same time and the same owner? (So that my LEED project boundary includes the right project site portion with the main building and the lower left project site portion with the parking spaces for the main building only.)
2) Or do I have to draw the LEED project boundary just equal to my project site boundary w/o considering the dormitory building?
Hoping to get an advise how to proceed...
Thanks. Elke
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 21, 2013 - 10:27 am
I think your question boils down to whether you have to include two buildings in your LEED boundary, even though only one is being cerified, just because they have the same construction contract. The answer is that you do not. If I midunderstood the question, let me know!