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Building Footprint - Parking Garages
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by WAGNER OLIVEIRA SILVA on
Dears, In our recent projects we are having some doubts about the “Building Footprint” definition.
Building with the skyway
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Elżbieta Pawlak on
The Project is composed of 2 separate buildings connected together with 2 floors of underground garage and 8 floors of skyway.
Required Vegetated Area
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by CT G on
Hello, We have a project with the following site constraints: The LEED Project Boundary includes 2 new buildings: an office tower, and a small bank building.
Appurtenances
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Katherine Ann Resurreccion on
I'm reviewing a project that will install skylight for basement parking. The skylight and the building footprint is inside the project boundary.
Staggered Vegetated Areas
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Martin Meehan on
Hello, Our project contains vegetated areas which are located in staggered locations within the LEED boundary.
Bldg Footprint_Cooling Tower & Generator
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Nancy Goshow on
We have a cooling tower and emergency generator adjacent to our building that is on a concrete pad and surrounded by a screen enclosure. Should this area count as part of the building footprint?
Open bottom planters
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer on
Reading the missing manuals I saw that planters can contribute to credit compliance as long as they are open bottom. By language barriers we do not fully understand the difference betweet an open
Land trust
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Gabriela Hernández Castillo on
Our project has very limited landscape options and I just found out about the offsite land donation. We are by no means familiar with the Land trust nor the EPA level III ecoregion.
Vegetated area requirement
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by JOHN BURNETT on
Hello, I am working on a project in China. According to local standards, only area with 600mm (approx.