The only two times I've heard of discounts being available for certification fees are 1. If a project has achieved LEED NC it can then register for EB O&M for free, and 2. There was a limited period of time when they offered to refund certification fees for projects that achieved platinum.
There may be other special circumstances, but can't think of them off the top of my head, so this may not apply to all or most projects.
Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic
Director of SustainabilityShangri-La Construction
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March 9, 2011 - 12:30 pm
Do you know when they stopped offering a refund of fees for projects that achieved platinum?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
March 10, 2011 - 11:21 pm
Jennifer, I'm not sure. The practice started in 2006 so it may have stopped a while ago.... I'm curious why you ask?
Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic
Director of SustainabilityShangri-La Construction
69 thumbs up
March 11, 2011 - 2:29 pm
I have a client who received LEED Platinum recently and said that he thought they were supposed to receive their fees back. I told him I was pretty sure that program had been suspended, but I wanted to make sure that was accurate, just in case.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
March 11, 2011 - 2:34 pm
I would email or call GBCI to ask them, but I think it's been quite a while.
Simon Sue
SL+A INTERNATIONAL ASIA INC.411 thumbs up
July 7, 2011 - 3:14 am
Hi Tristan,
do you have any reply from USGBC regarding the program?
Jessica Jones
Project ConsultantSustainable Design Consulting
20 thumbs up
July 27, 2011 - 5:04 pm
Hi Jason,
I contacted GBCI about the Platinum certification fee refunds for one of my projects and they told me this program was discontinued December 31, 2009.
Simon Sue
SL+A INTERNATIONAL ASIA INC.411 thumbs up
July 27, 2011 - 8:58 pm
Hi Jessica,
thanks a lot for the information. we recently received the same respond from gbci as well.
thanks again.