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LEED Recertification: When and How

Requirements for Recertification

Paul Loesch

Environmental Sustainability Intern

Aramark - Baylor University

LEEDuser Basic Member

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June 2, 2011

Our project initially certified in June 2009 under LEED EB v2.0. We have registered for recertification under LEED EB+OM 2009. What are the requirements for us to recertify? Do we have to resubmit documentation of each individual credit or just for the prerequisites? Submitting for each individual credit is essentially starting over considering the significant changes to the rating system. In this case, how would we handle the performance period for credits and prerequisites that did not previously exist? Reference guide states performance period for credits not earned during initial certification is the initial performance period. It is basically impossible for them to expect us to have policies in place or be collecting data for credits/prereqs that were did not exist during this period. I have requested clarification from GBCI and expect a response in the next few weeks. Any advice in the meantime would be very much appreciated. Any one gone through recertification of a EB v2.0 project to EBOM 2009?

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Alicia Chu

Senior Project Manager

Healthy Buildings

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Thu, 06/02/2011 - 20:53

Paul - according to a document issued by the GBCI titled "Temporary Guidance for Recertification under LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance," project originally certified under EB v2.0 are ineligible for recertification under LEED EB:O&M and would need to first complete initial certification under EB:O&M. With that said, it would make sense to treat your "recertifcation" project as an initial certification project. I hope the GBCI responds to you with a more streamlined approach though. I'm sure everyone on this topic would greatly appreciate any additional information the GBCI would provide!

Paul Loesch

Environmental Sustainability Intern

Aramark - Baylor University

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Fri, 06/03/2011 - 14:24

Thanks for your insights Alicia! This seems to be the consensus among people I have spoken with. Only 2 years have passed since our initial certification, it is frustrating to be starting over completely after such a short time, but that looks to be the reality.

Paul Loesch

Environmental Sustainability Intern

Aramark - Baylor University

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Fri, 07/08/2011 - 20:20

UPDATE: Received response from GBCI on our project. Basically, because we are recertifying a LEED EB building to the new LEED EB+OM standards, we should treat it as an "Initial" certification under LEED EB+OM as Alicia suggested. Performance period will start anew and will not be: the period for initial certification or the time in between initial and recertification, as had previously been suggested also. I am surprised this issue has not gotten more attention on this forum. Other than responses to very specific questions submitted to GBCI, there exists NO accurate information on a LEED EB to LEED EB+OM recertification. This includes the "Temporary Guidance for Recertification..." document. It does suggest that we were not eligible for recertification under EB+OM, but did not give any further instruction, especially on the performance period.

Barry Giles

Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM Fellow

BuildingWise LLC

LEEDuser Expert

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Tue, 10/25/2011 - 18:31

I find this an interesting subject as many buildings that went LEED EB did so under v2...however if you registered under EB v3 for re-cert then the differential between the credits may pose a major problem. In legal reality if you hold a registration for re-cert under EB 2008, then really GBCI should honour that...however if they 'demand' that you up to v3 and they don't charge for the upgrade you then have two choices. 1. muscle the building through a v3, or 2. request an pass on recert and complete an 'initial' certification in v3.

Chris Munn

Director, National Operations

Chelsea Group, Ltd.

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Wed, 02/15/2012 - 16:34

Where can this "Temporary Guidance for Recertification under LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance" be found? I can't seem to find it online anywhere.