Hi, Our team has a question about LEED-ND: Walkable requirement in section M (Building height to street ratio), the requirement is to comply with the 40% of the block length. Our project contains a mixture of blocks with buildings and blocks with just landscape features with circulation networks circulated around and/or between them. These landscape feature blocks with no building act like pocket gardens serving people from different parts of the project. When counting the total “block length”, the inclusion of these garden blocks adds a lot of unqualified block lengths to the equation. The question...

Hi, Our project does not have any surface parking (outdoor lots or single-story parking facilities not under habitable buildings). The project does not have any existing parking facilities. However, new off-street parking facilities will be built (basement and multi-story parking building). Based on the NPD Credit Reduced Parking Footprint PDF form, the numbers of preferred carpool and shared-use vehicle parking are only required when we select “New surface parking facilities are being built”.  On the other hand, when we chose “No new surface parking facilities are being built”, the form only...

Hi, The project plans to provide 10% carpool and shared-use vehicle parking; however, only some of the preferred parking can fit into the available lots within a 60-meter range of the entrances because there is not a sufficient number of parking within a 60-meter range of the entrances. Will it be acceptable for some of the preferred parking to be further than 60 meters from building entrances? Thank you so much in advance NPDc5 Thailand ...

a building before but have funding requiring sustainability certifications. As a LEED Proven Provider, we do a lot of LEED work, but our goal is always to recommend the best tool for our clients’ particular needs. Therefore, we are engaged in the entire rainbow of rating systems from Arc to Zero Carbon, with our current emphasis on growing work in WELL, Fitwel, ILFI Core, and LEED post-occupancy standards using ARC (LEED O+M, LEED Zero). YOU You are an impassioned individual interested in exploring consulting in the sustainable building field. You have a LEED Green Associate credential or have studied...

on and successfully submitted a project which was using lots of high tech HVAC systems which caused this problem to be even more inflated. I wrote a narrative that explained that this new tech was "a risk"...

We used Autocase to document this pilot credit. It was a good process, though we needed lots of help from our account rep, who was thankfully willing to walk us through the process.  We found some limitations in the software for our project type, but Autocase was able to take our feedback and limitations back to their software developers.  Our team found the output from the process very insightful, but knowing it was compared to the LEED baselines vs state and local codes made the data less relevant than it could have been. SSpc113 United States ...

What restrictions and or credits are available for asphalt sealcoating parking lots and roadway on a  LEED EBOM site.  I am concerned about both runoff and VOC MRp2 ...

Marcus Sheffer LEED Fellow 7group / Energy Opportunities LEEDuser Expert 5916 thumbs up May 23, 2022- 4:31 pm We will try to anwer this question where it has been repeated in the Warehouses forum. Log in or register to post comments Kyle G. Pearson LEEDuser Premium Member 3 thumbs up May 23, 2022- 4:37 pm Perfect.  It didn't look like there was a lot of traffic in that forum, so I thought it best to ask it here, as well. Log in or register to post comments ...

Hi I have a site that does not have enough power from the local grid so is considering a self contained LPG based generation on site. I'm just wondering if this will have an impact on any of the credits because it will have a significant impact on the carbon intensity of the whole project. The site will use a lot more power due to the onsite conversion from LPG to electricity, but the building itself will not use much more (slight increase due to transmission losses). Does anybody have any experience of this? EAp2 ...

Swanson Sr. Electrical Engineer Integrated Design Solutions LEEDuser Expert 736 thumbs up March 3, 2022- 2:37 pm BUG ratings are designed for light fixtures that are aimed down.  Zero degrees nadir. ...