Our LEED-Schools 2009 project is close to Preliminary Design Submittal. One issue which is still under consideration is the renewable energy system. While initially renewable energy was part the project scope, changes put inclusion of the system in question or at the least the decision will be delayed which could also affect the size and percentage of energy to be supplied by this system.
We would like to pursue a Split Review, submitting our Design Credits soon and Construction Credits in several months. Since EAp2 is a prerequisite and EAc1 is so heavily weighted, we’d like to submit those to review soon, without the contribution from the renewable energy system to receive benefit of any review comments the review team may have at this time. Can we submit the completed energy modeling for EAp2 and EAc1 to Design Review assuming no renewable energy system now, and add the contribution from the renewable energy system during Construction Review IF and when a system is added? LEED Online gives us the ability to indicate if any changes have occurred to the reviewed Design Credits prior to Preliminary Construction Review. Is this something that we could revise as a change during Construction Review even if the prerequisite and credit had already been reviewed previously?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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January 9, 2013 - 3:17 pm
Yes you can.
Ralph Bicknese
PrincipalHellmuth & Bicknese Architects
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January 9, 2013 - 4:12 pm
Marcus, thank you for the quick response. Do you happen to know if we would get the opportunity to clarify any questions the reviewers have (like a clarification phase) as well, or would we get one shot to add the renewable energy information to the energy model on EAc1?
Much appreciated!
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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January 9, 2013 - 4:54 pm
Like all credits each one gets two reviews, preliminary and final. So you would have two reviews for EAc2. For EAc1 you are supposed to get just one more shot. However if the amount claimed under EAc2 changes during the review process you would be able to adjust EAc1 for that issue only.
While it often may be useful to get the points nailed down for EAc1 for some of the reasons you are discovering we almost always defer EAp2/EAc1 to the construction phase so the final model can be based on the as-built conditions and we don't have to do the final model twice.
Ralph Bicknese
PrincipalHellmuth & Bicknese Architects
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January 9, 2013 - 6:57 pm
Thank you for clarifying!