I have several clients that are nearly refusing to provide a copy of their lease agreements because of concerns over confidentiality. Does anyone have recent experience submitting something short of the actual lease to satisfy the Appendix 4 requirements? For example, one of our clients proposed that GBCI should accept a letter from the developer. In years past, we've had reviewers accept this, but I have a feeling this won't be the case now.
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
July 25, 2013 - 8:17 am
Julie, seems reasonble that GBCI would accept a letter or perhaps relevant sections of the lease. This is the kind of question I would ask GBCi directly.
Julie Hendricks
PresidentSage Building Revival
163 thumbs up
July 25, 2013 - 11:31 am
I can give some follow-up on this... We submitted a letter from the developer in leiu of the lease, and the reviewers denied all the prerequisites/credits the letter attempted to address. We will have to file an appeal. What we are taking away from this is that we will have to provide the actual lease on all CS projects, as we cannot achieve even the the pre-reqs without it. In our case, we were asked to require EAp3, EAc4, and CO2 monitors in the lease. (If the building includes demand controlled ventilation, which is typical for many of our CS buildings, then reviewers are now commenting that the lease must require tenants to have CO2 monitors in densely occupied spaces in order to ensure compliance with EQp1.).
Julie Hendricks
PresidentSage Building Revival
163 thumbs up
November 7, 2013 - 4:30 pm
Now I can give even more follow-up on this. A signed lease is definitely considered a requirement, but in cases where a lease has already been signed, and did NOT include LEED language, we have gotten tentative approval to submit the following instead: 1) a lease amendment letter containing the LEED requirements signed by both parties to the lease, 2) a copy of a example future lease including the LEED requirements, and 3) a letter from the building owner/developer stating that all future tenants will be required to sign the example lease.