Post a question or comment
Credit Filters
Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
Filter by location
Forum
Topic
Replies
Recent

Offsite Landscape

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Irina Serrano  on 

I'm working on a project in Sao Paulo, Brazil and our project will implement a green area (1506.95 sf) outside our leed project boundary.

1
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 5:49 pm

Undeveloped vs. Greenfield

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Michelle Rosenberger  on 

One of our warehouse projects is the fifth phase of an existing development.

1
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 6:07 pm

Tunnels counted in building footprint?

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Deborah Lucking  on 

Our project has a tunnel that is totally below grade. Our initial thought is to exclude the tunnel from the building footprint, as that does not get counted in the site open area calculations.

1
Fri Apr 22, 2011, 10:52 pm

Exemplary performance for offsite land

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Heather Holdridge  on 

We are planning to donate offsite land to a land trust to gain earn this credit. This land will be equal to more than 75% of the previously developed area (including the building footprint).

1
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 8:38 pm

green roof

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Rob Hink  on 

I'm doing a Core and Shell project with a different retail and restaurant spaces. the project has a lot of green roofs. What sort of calculations do I do to get this credit?

1
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 9:23 pm

Demonstration that plants are native or adapted

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  David Lazaro  on 

Hello, We are encountering some problems as to deciding which vegetation species can be counted as adapted. In a Mediterranean country, there are many plants that grow well in our city.

2
Representative
Vermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
7780 thumbs up
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 5:54 pm

Land Trusts and Land Use Restriction Agreements

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Colin Twohig  on 

We have a project that is going for LEED Core and Sheel v2009 certification in a densely populated urban area and needs to pursue some form of contractual interaction with a land trust in order to

5
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 4:34 pm

Greenfield Site

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Maya Karkour  on 

Hello, Our project is a greenfield site (agricultural land) in a sub-urban area, we have a building footprint taking ~all the site, so we didn’t protect any land on site but we didn’t disturb the u

4
Representative
Vermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
7780 thumbs up
Mon Nov 4, 2013, 3:09 pm

Incorporating LEED interpretation to SSc5.1

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Phil Meyer  on 

Hi all, I have a question regarding a recent LEED interpretation citing SSc5.1.

3
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 4:40 am

Green Walls

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira  on 

Hi all! Can I get any benefit from having green walls in my project, for the purpose of this credit? P.S: It is a Previously Developed Area.

2
Representative
Vermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
7780 thumbs up
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 4:15 pm