Does anyone know of a manufacturer that makes a parking lot lighting fixture that casts light in only one direction, instead of 2 or 4 directions? SSc8 ...

One of our contractors has a question about the VOC budget method. If we have a large number of materials in our building, do we need to list all of them in the budget, or can we leave the majority of compliant products out, and just include enough compliant products to offset the very few non-compliant liters of material on site? (e.g if we have 100 extra grams of VOC in one product application, can we include one additional material where we have 100 fewer grams than the allowable by virtue of it being a zero or extremely low VOC material)- this way we can save the time of collecting quantities of all...

advice) but to be sure, does this constitute as a ‘regular occupied space’ and thus I should be able to use it in these calculations? Thanks a lot for all the good info I find on this website Lee IEQc8.1 ...

but GBCI gives the final word when it comes to certification.That said, LEEDuser was built with the expert guidance of a team of dozens of the top LEED experts in the world, many of whom have lots of experience doing LEED reviews, serving on LEED committees, and more. Our forum is filled with hundreds more people like this. There are a lot of gray areas and uncharted waters in LEED, and these folks have...

David Posada Integrated Design & LEED Specialist SERA Architects LEEDuser Expert 1980 thumbs up August 11, 2010- 12:30 pm This case evolved from dense urban projects with zero lot-line development (building footprint covering 100% of the site), where the only place for creating any sort of habitat was the roof. While intensive roofs tend to have lower species diversity than plantings...

Jason Franken Sustainability Professional LEEDuser Expert 608 thumbs up August 10, 2010- 5:08 pm Kevin, this is one of those situations where the submittal requirement doesn't have a whole lot of bearing on the actual level of operational performance at the project building. This requirement to upload a site plan was added in v2009 to create continuity between the SS credits, but isn't really relevant to the key criteria for SSc2. If you are using a site plan to highlight features for other SS credits (SSc5, SSc6, SSc7, or SSc8), feel free to use the same file here. However, you may also provide...

of Representatives LEEDuser Expert 11477 thumbs up August 10, 2010- 12:26 pm John, I had dialogue with a USGBC contact about this, and confirmed that  the requirement is, as the language (see above) states, “Zero use...

Christopher Schaffner CEO & Founder The Green Engineer LEEDuser Expert 963 thumbs up August 9, 2010- 8:23 pm The LEED form wants you to enter your Target Finder score, but the reviewers do not use that info directly to judge the accuracy of you model, so go ahead and put in the number what ever your result is. Answers to your specific questions. 1) your rating is what it is. Ideally, you should be over 75, but it really depends on a lot of things, and the Target Finder is a pretty crude tool. It's really there more as sanity check. If your score is at the very high or very low end,...

properly. Also, unless there has been another update in the past month, you need to put a number in every box in the column for MRc4. If there is no recycled content in a line item you still need to put a zero or the form won't calculate. The delay in data entry makes this particularly painful. Fortunately, this seems to be the only of the linked credits that requires the zeros. Log in or register...

zeledon LEEDuser Basic Member 243 thumbs up August 8, 2010- 9:08 pm Thanks a lot. Log in or register to post comments ...