At the URL below are recommendations from forest activists in the environmental community for commenting on LEED 2012. If you care about maintaining high standards for...

I recently recieved a review comment asking to expand the narritive of EAc1.3 Opt. 1 to include "description of the potential savings" as requested on the credit template. I am attempting only...

I am in favor of requiring that LEED APs have a specialty in order to get an additional point in a certification. I coordinate LEED projects for a living, and far, far too often I have to work...

i am entering data, and have a small room with wide windows that push the number to .26. Based on what I have investigated, I need to adjust the daylight zone (in this case up) to get it within...

"Establishes contractual requirements with responsible waste and recycling haulers, including waste reporting requirements for involved parties."

We have found that the recycling programs...

ASHRAE 189.1, 8.4.1.2 requires us to have permanent shading devices. We are attempting to achieve the Daylighting credit 8.1. For the prescriptive method, does an interior or exterior shading...

I have several projects where the fenestration VLT...

I already submitted my comments on this prerequisite to USGBC but just noticed the following that needs to be addressed. The revised language for reporting mentions only the submeters – not the “...

Our supplier who does the recharging of refrigerants has a standard formula for determining the refrigerant charge based on minutes per day of purge pump out operation. The values end up being...

This question is really in regards to NC 2.2, but I assume the same would apply here: Do projects with shift work need to provide bike racks for the...