I am curious about the dos and don'ts of defining a project boundary for our whole bulding LEED NC v3 project. The existing building will double in size to 9600 sq ft and is surrounded by a busy port terminal area comprized of two parcels (ea about 8 acres). Our project bridges the two parcels of vast asphalt. The project will include redoing two street entrances, the streetside sidewalk between them, adding property front landscape, and trenching to a near by emergency generator for emergency power. Is it too simplistic to think that we can define our project boundary as being bounded by the street front curb inclusive of the two street entrances, and then simply creating the smallest boundary we can that includes the outside edges of the building, the generator, and the parking stalls?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
June 8, 2011 - 8:33 am
Virginia, are you familiar with the LEED MPR supplemental guidance? This gives some useful (and binding) pointers on what to include and not include in a situation like yours.
Mark Taake
United Excel Design1 thumbs up
December 18, 2012 - 4:13 pm
Our project consists of multiple discrete renovation areas within a large hospital; the intent is to register it under LEED CI, rather than healthcare, since the project is not a complete gut/rebuild.
I've seen multiple discussion references onsite to the LEED boundary needing to be inclusive of areas which "support" the actual renovation area but which are beyond the limits of construction. However, I've been unable to find where this is explicitly set forth. Can you point me to the defining text? Thank you.