Our project is hoping to use the v4 criteria (diverse uses) to meet the requirements for a v3 project. The article about substituting credits is not completely clarifying the threshold of the v4 credit that needs to be complied with.
The table says "Project teams must earn the highest threshold on both of the LEED v4 credit options to earn the LEED v2009 points (5 points under v2009 Development density and community connectivity)" which sounds like you need to meet the highest threshold in BOTH options within the v4 credit to comply for v3.
Does anyone know if in fact you need to meet both options under the v4 credit, or if you only need to meet the highest threshold of 1 option for SSc2? Can you get points for just meeting one of the options. 4 or 2 points?
Thanks!
Kimberly Schlaepfer
Sustainability Coordinator LEED AP O+M, BD+C75 thumbs up
January 12, 2016 - 11:36 am
Hi Rita,
My hunch is, if it is published on their website that in order to substitute, you must meet the highest requirement thresholds for development density and community connectivity, that there is no way around the requirement. USGBC will most likely want anyone substituting this credit to fully pilot the v4 credit so they can get project teams to have more exposure to the new rating system.
Note, the requirements for community connectivity are very similar to v3. The main difference is v4 encourages selecting greater diversity of services.
Hope this helps!
Denise Bates
Sr Interior DesignerGensler
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May 23, 2016 - 10:12 am
you do have to meet both paths to comply. one of the other key differences between v3 and v4 is that v4 removes the greenfield exclusion.