Hello, I submit my case.
We are working on the design of four small buildings (office, retail and restaurant the main uses) within the same site. Each single building is attributable to Major Renovation Certification. There is a single developer, that will be in charge to manage buildings after occupancy.
The air conditioning system islocated in one of the four buildings and serve also the others, by means a distribution network.
Is it possible to follow a single certification for all buildings, according to LEED NC rating system?
Thank you
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1976 thumbs up
November 1, 2012 - 4:26 am
The problem with pursuing NC for four different buildings is doing an energy model that describes the envelope, window areas, occupancy schedule, etc when those are different for each building. Are you renovating four existing buildings? You might consider doing it as one CI project, though you should confirm with the GBCI if they agree that would fit your situation.
Steve Khouw
PrincipalDNA GreenDesign
169 thumbs up
November 1, 2012 - 6:18 am
Go with Group Project Certification - assuming each building is mixed-use and similar in attribute/design, yes why not go with multiple buildings certification but not necessarily campus style, rather in one group? You can share the MEP design work for submission among all 4 buildings, beside you do have a district/distributed HVAC system. Only caution is that LOv3 at the moment cannot handle group level AGMBC yet, so you still have to register 4 separate projects and set up block in LOv3 then use alt compliance mode for all the shared submittals. Later when USGBC gets their act together with group projects in LOv3, they had publised a promise to refund the difference in fees already paid.