Commercial C&S building. The owner found a tenant and will allow the contractor hired by this tenant to carry out the work in private areas before the contractor hired for core&shell scope delivers its job .
Two contractors will be working at the building at the same time and only the one responsible for Core & Sheel scope (hired by the owner) will follow LEED premisses. The tenant is not interested in following the goals of certification and thus we can not pursue LEED NC.
Can we still go for LEED C&S?
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David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1976 thumbs up
April 9, 2014 - 8:28 pm
You should be fine - the tenants in a CS project aren't required to pursue LEED. See MPR Supplemental Guidance (Rev #2) pg 22: "For a project certifying under LEED-CS, the project is considered a ‘building in its entirety’ without interior fit-outs being complete."
Having separate contractors makes the documentation a bit easier, since materials for the CS work will be purchased and tracked by the CS contractor and does not include any of the TI work.
One warning: for MRc3, the construction waste for the C&S project should be tracked separately from the Tenant Improvement (TI) waste. Ideally, this would be separate waste bins for the CS work and the TI work. Since that may be unrealistic, you’ll need to work with each contractor and the waste hauler and decide how to prorate the waste in each bin and in each monthly report from the hauler. You’ll need to show what % of each waste report is attributed to the CS work, and what % is for the TI work. It may help to take a photograph of the bin (looking down on the contents) so you can verify if a load contains scrap metal , drywall, wood, etc.
Rosana Correa
DirectorCasa do Futuro
31 thumbs up
April 14, 2014 - 11:29 am
Thank you David!