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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
project footprint definiton
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by tanner white on
I have a building with 3 foot overhangs around it.
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.