If you've got full cutoff fixtures you are usually set. However, if you have a situation like we had earlier, with some angled spotlights, you've got a problem. We actually took IES data and...

I was wondering if the USGBC has provided any guidance regarding calculating the...

A project I am working on is going to be utilizing an off-site park (it's across the street) for stormwater management. Would it be possible for our project to include this non-contiguous park as...

In the credit language, hospital patient rooms are allowed to have faucets with 2.2 gpm. Does this hold true for operating rooms and doc offices? It seems it should, as in those areas you don't...

I'm wondering if this is the same thing I've been hearing about, or something different.

What I've being hearing is that USGBC would be collecting up CIRs that they consider precedent-...

If in the school kitchen there is a dishwasher with the required performance and no one of the other 4 water consuming equipments listed in the requirement, together with the compliance to the...

Hello All,

I have a project that is required to meet its own jurisdictional dark sky ordinance. In reviewing the ordinance, it appears to be very similar to IESNA in its approach, but...

The fees based on sq ft of the building - are they dertemined by gross sq ft or functional sq ft? Is any enclosed...

Thank you very much. Your message was really useful, but now everything will become more complicated! And if the contractor will sign with the hand and I´ll scan this credit and upload it? Can be...

Hi Pietro,

It's good you're getting this figured out now so you can avoid pended credits throughout your application in the preliminary review over this minor, but important issue. In the...