I have an in patient Hospital project and we are providing roof gardens and access to those gardens. Hooray for direct access to nature! My question in on the entryway systems. We want to encourage people to go outside so these are regularly used entries. Using dirt trapping entry systems in a patient care unit would be unacceptable for infection control so we are looking into carpeted mat systems. I can get the owner to agree to the weekly maintenance but since they clean their own buildings, could I get an exception in line with the schools exception? For the record, we're staying with NC...

construction. Of the tree operating towers, only two of them are being certified. In this case, all the structure of external parking lots, landscaping, roads and grounds are shared with the four towers and will be 100% considered in the certification scope. Follow on the next lines a more detailed explanation of the situation and our questions about this case: 1)Eap2 – Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance...

Sverige AB LEEDuser Basic Member 120 thumbs up March 1, 2011- 12:26 pm Thank you Valerie, then we will consider all of our Fluorescent lamps as hazardous waste, easiest. I would appreciate it a lot if you...

Allison Beer McKenzie Architect, Director of Sustainability SHP Leading Design LEEDuser Expert 646 thumbs up March 3, 2011- 9:34 am On the form for this credit, you will have to check a box that says: "Supply air systems, including both outside air and return air delivered as supply, serving all regularly occupied areas are sized to accommodate filtration media with a MERV rating of 13 or better. New filtration media which meet this MERV rating will be installed prior to occupancy." The strategy you are describing does not seem to be in line with honestly checking this box on the form,...

it will be very disspointing if this decission, which is major part of the design, and that will cost the client a lot, and it supplies a good thermal output, couldn't be modeled and rewarded by LEED points....

You'd also have to deduct any other assemblies that wouldn't easily fit within CSI divisions 2-10... wheels, tires, suspensions, and drive motors come to mind. It would be a lot of work, and still...

I have a technical question about LEED Online and inputting information into the Adobe Form for IEQp1. The issue I am having is the amount of time required to document a building that has several zones. Currently, the only way I know how to document IEQp1 is to actively enter each zone, line by line online. However, each time I input a value, the whole form pauses and I believe, re-calculates every value in the table. This pause greatly slows the process of inputting information and for buildings with well over 40 zones can increase our documentation time by several hours. Has anyone run...

Christopher Schaffner CEO & Founder The Green Engineer LEEDuser Expert 963 thumbs up February 8, 2010- 12:54 pm Harvard Green Campus has been posting all their LEED Documentation to a public website. Within this there are several projects connected to DES, although none are using microturbines. http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/theresource/leed-submit/nc/ Lots of good examples there. Log in or register to post comments Michael Asaro Principal Delawie LEEDuser Basic Member 3 thumbs up February 22, 2011- 3:16 pm On a related subject- I have a new Combined Heat & Power project that is supplying/...

so take this with as large a grain of salt as you think is required: i've been advised, repeatedly, that there's a perilously fine line between commenting on pending litigation and expressing thoughts about the state of our industry. i'm doing the latter- not the former. i consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur of leed criticism. my title is vp, leed technical development so lots of criticism about the way leed works comes my way. it might be the sheer volume of criticism i see but over the years i have to admit that i've become a bit of a snob about it. that said, some of the very...

Dear all, I am currently filling the LEED Online Letter templates. Some of these are BETA version. Until now, I am having no problems/bugs. It it possible that the USGBC asks to upgrade to the latest version 3? The issue is that it would take me a lot of time to re-fill all the BETA templates. Note that I noticed, for this EA Prerequisite form, that the v3 version asks for the HDD & CDD of the city/area, and also asks for 2 signatories of the Electrical Engineer AND Mechanical Engineer (as opposed to the BETA version, which asks for one signatory of who they call "Design Engineer"). Any...