Hello everyone, I'm working on a project that contains a very large green area. The project will not have irrigation of any kind, since the project is situated in a temperate-humid region.

At least 5% of the site area must have landscaping to qualify for the credit - does this include the building footprint or can the footprint be excluded? Thank you.

I was wondering if anyone had already used a roof garden including the perlite. Perlite is a volcanic rock effusive varying in color between gray and pink, whose chemical composition is similar to

Our Project is a NC, part of a university campus. The campus is supplying the project with the pipeline for irrigation. all the water supplied by the campus is Non-potable / reused water.

Does anyone know if open-grid paving is qualified as vegetated area?

We are trying to reach the 5% landscaped area in a project. The question is: how do we measure it? The shaded area or the tree well area? Thank you!

The LEED form gives a certain amount of water based on the calculations.

We have a project where a good part of the non-hardscaped area inside the LEED boundary will be planted in native prairie grasses, with no irrigation.