We are working on an office project were 80% of the area is leased to a single tenant and 20% is uleased yet. The project will be certified under New Construction after a request of the main tenant.
Now it is unclear how we should handle the unleased area in the certification. Especially in the IEQ category we are worried about some credits.
For example IEQc6.1: Controllability of Systems - Lighting:
All occupants in the leased area will have task lighting (about 80% of all FTEs). To receive the credit at least 50% of the FTEs in the unleased area need task lighting, too. After it is unleased, we can not show compliance yet. Is a tenant lease agreement necessary there or is there any other general approach?
Thank you for your help!
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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July 26, 2014 - 1:33 am
Jan, these would be good questions to post to the specific LEEDuser forums on our site, such as IEQc6.1.
Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
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August 27, 2014 - 11:19 am
Jan - You probably also need to take a look at LEED Interpretation 10102 which sets additional requirements for NC projects which have incomplete spaces (I assume that 20% would not be complete). This is based on the assumption that your project registered after it was posted in November 2011.
Based on that interpretation, I would anticipate that you would need to include the requirements of IQEc6.1 in your LI-required Tenant Guidelines and Owner Commitment Letter, but I wouldn't think you would need to include the future occupants in your credit calculations of IEQc6.1. From my reading, it looks like the future tenants/space only need to be included in the performance calculations of WEp1/WEc3 and the EAp2/EAc1.