for that, but current status is not entirely clear to me. Anyway, bottom line is that the EBOM rating system can do it, but it may be a bumpy ride... LEED 2009 EB-O&M ...

to the extent that the original building line is obliterated. How do you define a building then? Smoke compartment? Original footprint? Mechanical zones? By departments? To date, we've been very conservative...

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...

Reynaldo, can you clarify what you have in mind? What records are you keeping, and for what purpose? Doing LEED-EBOM certification is recommended at this stage, and we have a lot of resources on that. LEED 2009 EB-O&M ...

Hi Nancy, I see that you're a LEEDuser member, which is great since you are new to LEED. There is a lot of information on the details of each NC-v2.2 LEED certification credit here that I would recommend you read up on—including MRc4. We also have a specific forum for MRc4. There is more detail on the MRc4 page, but the difference is whether you are using for your materials budget the actual project materials cost (most projects do this), or a default value of 45% of the project cost (this can be particularly helpful for renovation projects). LEED-NC 2009 ...

We have a project that uses a waterstop in an elevator pit. The waterproofing is on the exterior side of the concrete. The waterstop is nestled between two slabs of concrete and there are no plans to seal the concrete seam on the interior. The waterstop material has zero VOCs, but the primer submitted has 509 g/L. Two questions: 1. With the waterstop embedded in the cold joint of the concrete, is it considered to be inside of the weatherproofing system or encapsulated within the concrete itself? 2. If so, does the primer used need to meet the VOC requirement for "Special Purpose Contact...

by the building area to get MJ/SF (as the calculator says). In this case energy went to essentially zero (not a surprise), and it appears everything else stayed the same. Now Acidification and Ozone were...

We're proposing 0.5 gpm faucts for a project and the client is demanding more information from other facilities on these faucets. Specifically he wants to understand the need for more recirculation loops and the costs. Does anyone have information on how many more recirc loops they add so that the hot water appears more quickly? This is an inpatient hospital and we're up against a Dept of Health regulation. He is also asking about sediment clogging up the water lines at the flow restrictors but I think we can filter this issue away. His facility standard is 2.2 gpm and they are pretty happy...

I saw Chrissy Macken make several comments on August 10th, but I haven't seen anything from USGBC since then. It's been a month, and the comment window is almost closed. Will anyone from USGBC be responding to questions raised by posters on this site? There was a lot more feed-back during the first public comment phase. I would still like to know why some portions of LEED are not open for public comments and who decided which areas were locked. ...

in environmental marketing is essentially putting their brand equity on the line. Reputable companies that are interested in long term survival do not engage in self-certifications lightly. Conversely, third-party...