Hello everyone,
I am curious to know the following:
Based on your experience dealing with large projects applying for LEED ND Certification, what would you say is the time effort per stage required for LEED ND Consultancy in terms of Man-days?
Specifically, I’m preparing a LEED ND Consultancy proposal for an International (outside U.S) mixed-use project that covers around 100 acres of land with a BUA of around 700,000 m2. What do you believe is an approximate time effort needed for such a consultancy?
Many Thanks,
Mario
Daniel Costantino
Urban Planner, LEED AP NDEcology & Environment, Inc.
69 thumbs up
September 3, 2012 - 1:07 pm
Hi Mario,
In brief: this is likely to take a lot of man hours. However, you're probably going to have to figure out how many on your own, by detailing how you expect to run the project and exactly what services you will need from your LEED Consultant.
It's impossible to give you anything in Man-days at the level of detail you provide. Many details about how the project is organized can seriously impact the amount of work required (like, by factors of 2 or more).
To give you a (non-exhaustive) list of the types of questions you need to answer in building your estimate:
Are you a Project Owner seeking a LEED Consultant or do you represent the Design Team looking to integrate a LEED Consultant?
Will the consultant be expected to regularly attend meetings in person on location, or will e-mail and phone communication be sufficient in most cases ? How many people are required from the Consultant at a typical meeting ?
Does the consultant already have a presence in the country the project is located in and do they know the rules of that market?
Is your international project in an English-speaking country familiar with green building processes or a non-English-speaking country where no LEED project has ever been tried?
How much design review will your LEED Consultant need to perform?
How much on-call consulting will be needed to answer your design team's (many) likely questions during the process?
Is your design team proficient in LEED, and LEED ND in particular, or will this be their first time?
Will you be requiring your LEED Consultant to do building energy and water modeling, or will that role fall to designers with consultant review?
Good luck!
Daniel