How much of the building must be ready before you can send in constuction review?
The building is not fully leased yet so there are some core and shell spaces that are not finished but only about 30%.
What are the rules must 40% be ready or 60% or more?
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TODD REED
Energy Program SpecialistPA DMVA
LEEDuser Expert
889 thumbs up
January 30, 2015 - 11:56 am
You say this is NC, yet you are talking about leasing spaces, so is this an actual NC submission ofr CS submission. If a CS submission, the spaces do not have to be leased to submit. If this is NC with commercial lease spaces, as long as you have the tenant lease agreements in place to ensure those leasable spaces meet the credit requirements, then you won't need to worry about those spaces.
But really, it depends what credits your are attempting and what design credits you have pushed into the construction review.
If construction is still occurring, then you will still be generating construction waste. So you won't be accurately documenting the construction waste. Are all your submittals in for all the VOC products to ensure that they meet the requirements of EQc4?
Pia Öhrling
Piacon2 thumbs up
January 30, 2015 - 1:39 pm
It is a NC project due to the 40/60 rule, since it is more than 60% leased and a large portion of that is one tenant.
We will go for all VOC credits except formaldehyde, waste credit, regional and recycled. Aim is Platinum.
The first tenants will be moving in, in some months but if we have to wait until the building is 100% leased it might take a year or more after first tenants have moved in. Seems strange that LEED would require that. Of course there will be some construction waste and building material etc but only for fit outs. The lighting design, plumbing, HVAC, etc are all included in the Core and shell sope so fit out is only interior material as flooring, paint, modular walls etc.
Charles Nepps
NH Green Consulting97 thumbs up
January 30, 2015 - 4:41 pm
My gut feeling is you'll need to wait until construction is complete, but I would recommend sending the question to the GBCI via the Feedback option on LEED Online.