Spec Sections vs. LEED Credits checklist?

John Ida

President

Urban Works, Inc.

LEEDuser Basic Member

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December 14, 2011

http://www.masterspec.com/users/specifying_leed_requirements.php ARCOM offers some sort of checklist or template where you can select the credits you are attempting and it will give you a chart of which spec sections should include specific LEED language (going for approach B here). Is there any type of tool offered through leeduser that does the same thing? I have a PDF and have also used the Harvard Green Building Initiative as a guide reference before, but wondered about this excel chart or spreadsheet. See link: http://green.harvard.edu/sites/all/themes/green-ofs/theresource/new-construction/specifications/documents/toc_spec.pdf Any insight would be appreciated! Thanks

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Susan Walter

HDR

LEEDuser Expert

894 thumbs up

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 14:39

We use e-specs linx here and that was our starting point. It was not the ending point. We beefed up a lot of language pulling from the Reference Guide, military/gov't specs and other resources. I did not find that a simple excel chart very helpful personally. Jim's comment below is also spot on. You must include the LEED language in ever section that you have products that contribute to your strategy. We do this in the section's submittals portion and we always reference Div 1 LEED Requirements and Div 1 Construction Waste Management sections. We also ensure than anything specified in Part 2 of any section actually has the LEED qualities we need. That was a lot of work. What we found is that after we got the Part 2 items worked out and standardized language for Part 1 that subsequent projects are easy. We don't need to reinvent the spec wheel with each new project. Now all we do is maintain for updates. I wish I could tell you that is as easy as it sounds.