Is it possible for a project to achieve LEED Silver and only meet EAp2 by demonstrating 10% energy cost savings?

In our office building, the annual Gas Consumption accounts for more than 40% of the total annual energy consumption. The gas is used for Heating and for Cooking (for a Restaurant).

We have a project with some existing asphalt pavement that will be busted up and used as clean fill on the same project.

I have a relatively large data center (200kw connected load) in a relatively larger building (250k sf) so that the data center is not the major program space, but is a relatively large minority of

Are there any catches to proving that the RECs that we buy are used only on a specific LEED project? Should I ask the seller to specify the facility's name or something on the REC?

I am wondering if anyone who has posted has been able to get feedback any other way? I tried submitting my same question via LEEDonline and have received no response.

Our project will be pursuing the thirty percent (30%) savings threshold by including fixtures both within and outside the LEED project boundary.

I don't think the policy it gives is anything new—a lot of us have worked to choose to report wood content as either recycled or FSC, but not both—but FYI, LEED Interpretation 10372 was released on

Actually I'am not able to correlate section 14 required inputs under pressure drop column "CFMd", and the requirements of ASHRAE TABLE 6.5.3.1.1 B in (pascals/ in.w).

Could you please explain that Option. I am not sure I understand when it is applicable. Thank you OPTION 3.