According to the guidance I've seen from LEED, your performance period for recertification is from the time you were certified initially up until the time you submit for for recertification. Therefore if you wait 5 years, you are expected to provide 5 years of data. Well, what if you simply wait until that 5 years expires, and then simply start again with 3 month performance periods? That seems to make more sense than gathering 5 years of data.
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Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
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February 14, 2012 - 11:42 am
It's certainly an option, except that during that 5 years we have well seen at least two updates to LEED. The purpose of recert is to make a seamless transition between the different years of operations. By recertifying at least ever two years rather than five you will be able to make use of almost all the existing forms and support documentation that you used initially. Yes you are right the support paperwork is a nightmare especially if you have no documents being gathered over the years and letting the certification lapse is an option. However is this really want we want to do. Our original intention was to show that over the years buildings can provide the support data that shows that they have maintained their high performance status and are worthy of displaying the EB plaque. By letting the EB lapse you are not showing this only that for a three month period you'd complied. This discussion is not really about certification, it's really about data acquisition and maintainance