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Building Footprint- Parking Garages

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by WAGNER OLIVEIRA SILVA on Jan 30, 2012, 10:15 am

Dears,

In our recent projects we are having some doubts about the “Building Footprint” definition. These doubts have appeared in relation with the exclusion of some types of spaces of the...

Last reply: Nirab Biswas, Dec 2, 2017, 12:08 am

Building with the skyway

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Elżbieta Pawlak on Oct 25, 2017, 12:22 pm

The Project is composed of 2 separate buildings connected together with 2 floors of underground garage and 8 floors of skyway.
The certification includes 1 building, the...

Undisturbed site areas within LEED project boundary?

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Edgar Arevalo on Aug 24, 2017, 2:33 pm

I have a project where a patch of forestry has been removed for a new university building. There is still the rest of the forest around the building that is outside of the LEED project boundary...

Last reply: Summer Minchew, Aug 28, 2017, 9:30 am

Demonstration that plants are native or adapted

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by David Lazaro on Dec 19, 2016, 11:41 am

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....

Last reply: Tim Gaidis, Feb 17, 2017, 12:54 pm

Staggered Vegetated Areas

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Martin Meehan on Jun 14, 2016, 6:07 am

Hello,

Our project contains vegetated areas which are located in staggered locations within the LEED boundary. Some are long narrow strips that hug the perimeter boundary, others are small...

Last reply: Tristan Roberts, Jan 19, 2017, 9:06 am

PV Panels

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Ciaran McCabe on Apr 22, 2016, 10:25 am

Can PV panels be installed among a green roof. Whats the official line LEED takes with this.

Last reply: Tristan Roberts, Jan 19, 2017, 9:03 am

green roof

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Rob Hink on Mar 8, 2016, 12:11 pm

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?

Last reply: Karin Miller, Mar 10, 2016, 4:23 pm

Off-Site Option for Greenfield?

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by AtSite Inc on Dec 23, 2014, 4:44 pm

If the site was previously a...

Last reply: Kristina Bach, Dec 24, 2014, 8:57 am

How do you restore habitat on a reclaimed land?

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by Dina Ammar on Nov 23, 2014, 3:05 pm

Would a reclaimed land qualify as a Greenfield Site and can a project on such site earn SSc5.1 under case 1? Given that the land reclamation occurred twenty years ago would that land have a '...

Last reply: April Brown, Dec 8, 2014, 1:34 pm

Required Vegetated Area

CS-2009 SSc5.1: Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by CT G on Aug 6, 2014, 3:12 pm

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. The office tower is...

Last reply: April Brown, Dec 8, 2014, 1:06 pm