On the review team, there's likely to be different people reviewing different credits, based on their area of expertise. The summary narrative helps those different players understand the big picture of the project and can often prevent a lot of misunderstanding and mis-interpretation of your credit strategies. If you imagine what key information will help a specialist diving into a few specific credits understand the relevant context they'll need to understand your submission, that's what you want to aim for.
As far as the numbers, provide your best guess if you have one, or leave some blank, but realize that in their aggregate those numbers will hopefully inform and guide future decision making.
Breana Detzler
Project DesignerRisinger + Associates
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April 28, 2011 - 10:22 am
Do you typically summarize the LEED components of the project in the narrative? Or is the narrative a more generic building history and description? Are there examples of these narratives somewhere for reference?
Thanks in advance for any input you can provide!
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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April 28, 2011 - 10:35 am
Both the generic building description with stats and a summary of green strategies would be useful. For some examples you might look at the "Overview" tab of any of the project case studies in the High Performance Buildings database at:
http://eere.buildinggreen.com/
Breana Detzler
Project DesignerRisinger + Associates
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April 28, 2011 - 10:50 am
Thanks for your quick response and for the link, it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again!