5 thumbs up February 27, 2011- 1:21 pm Hi Tristan, Thanks for the response. It's the first time we post a query, but we are big fans of the forum – Fantastic Work!. We did review the requirements...

Rosamaria, I can't immediately think of any well-known examples, but it has been done and is being done.
The energy portion can be challenging because it's tough to show savings for the...

When calculating distance between the manufacturing plant & the project site, is the distance I should use, actual travel distance by land, or by "how the crow flies"?

I have a...

Dear All,

Could we possible to get the LEED certification for swimming complex. Earlier any swimming complex project got the certification. Could you please send me the reference of...

Dear all,

The retail price of a certain product is $15 (anyone can buy it from the supplier for $15).
However, the contractor has a special discount: he buys this product for $10,...

1. One of our project have around 1000 m2 landscaping area. In which they are using 20 numbers of 10W bollard external lighting in only 400m2 area. The remaining 600 m2 area does not have any...

I am having significant problems with the LEED LCA score calculator. I am doing 6 buildings of 1-4 stories, and they are all getting similar scores, in the 134-147 point range. The stated...

1) On my current project, we have an office room which has three work stations, served by one thermostat, one diffuser and no operable window. The office will be occupied only part-time (1-2 days...

Can we scale our square footage inputs linearally to account for cement replacement in excess of 20%? This seems to be especially important when considering foundations where we generally push...

Gary, I agree that no less scrutiny will be applied to v2.1 projects, compared with more recent systems.
I think it's still feasible to certify a v2.1 project, however.
Any other...