anyone come across a better definition or a clear line between what's in and what's out? I find the "official" definition very confusing- for example why is piping included but fire...

them here (I know it is a lot) hoping someone knows the answer for a few of them, maybe. Note: I will also post on specific credit foruns as well. Questions here:...

in LEED so I easily miss a lot of changes (but I think that's true for a large portion of people that don't document as their daily job). This is a case where they really need a redirect with very...

to get this build over the Min. line. Any comments/thoughts on this? Again, super appreciated Best Gaston Log in or register to post comments Marcus Sheffer LEED Fellow 7group / Energy Opportunities...

and the reply was, "We are a leading test lab for adhesive manufacturers and run a lot of D2559 qualifications but I would be surprised if you find any OSB resins or plywood adhesives that are qualified...

with specularity of all materials to be set to zero, however later we will need to change all materials to black for similar reasons (see section 4.1) so for simplicity we will change materials to black here...

We have a whole lot of experience with this issue. Marcus is right. You only need to provide part of the documentation but it does need to include the following: page with project designation, page...

Hi folks, SSc5- Heat Island Reduction Core & Shell V4 Working on an office project with occupiable roofs on floors 3 – 8.  Each outdoor patio consists of green roof and pavers.  The pavers are set up on a pedestal system – below the pedestal system we hold water as a blue roof – all of that sitting upon “the roof” (insulation, weather barrier, deck, etc).  I’m trying to figure out what would be considered roof versus nonroof measure here in regard to the pavers.  I’ve read up on a lot of the discussion on the forums though I haven’t seen something specifically addressing this in v4 (though I could...

I see, thanks a lot for the clarification. Our system is negative pressure system (cooling pad/curtain) in Cambodia. Actually we don't try to achieve the enhanced credit, but just the prerequisite....

to the project; it's a university campus so a lot of the policies and available resources are campus wide rather than project specific and existed prior to the project development. So for example we...