We are renovating urban buildings into apartments and speculative retail/commercial space. Some of the retail/commercial space will be constructed prior to application and some won't. The guidelines say that proposed tenant fit-outs by the owner have to comply with the project application, while tenant fit-outs completed by others don't. Do the tenant spaces completed before application that are built by the tenant have to comply?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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February 12, 2013 - 7:51 pm
Joel, we need a little context here. Are you doing this under NC, CS, or as individual CI projects?
Joel Cheely
PresidentVIP Architectural Associates, PLLC
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February 18, 2013 - 8:35 am
We are using NC 2009. The general consensus around here is anything completed in the building prior to certification needs to meet requirements. It does seem strange that spaces completed after we submit may not comply.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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February 18, 2013 - 9:10 am
Joel, anything within the construction scope needs to comply with NC. Anything that will be fit out later you need to treat like a CS project, and the way a CS project works is that tenant fit-outs must comply with LEED requirements to varying degrees, enforced through an owner commitement and lease agreements. CS Appendix 4 in the LEED Reference Guide is a key reference here, as is LEED Interpretation #10102, issued 11/1/2011, which you can find at usgbc.org/LEEDInterpretations.
Jodie Clarke
Commercial Services ManagerO'Brien & Company
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July 2, 2013 - 6:16 pm
Tristan, do you have any guidance on this subject if the project is pursuing LEED-CI? I am working on a project where the owner is doing a tenant improvement on the entire building but there will be a small lease-able space that they only fit out with the HVAC system. If we include this space in the LEED boundary do we need to write TI Guidelines and an owner commitment letter as with "incomplete spaces" in NC projects?