Our project will add a building to a large existing master planned area. Our scope of work will add new drought tolerant plantings and irrigation to our small part of the bigger site, but there...

The recommendation is to "minimize turf grass".  Is there a baseline turf grass species?  What if we use drought-tolerant, or warm or cool season grasses (depending on the project location) that...

Our project is a complete interior renovation of an existing facility on a college campus. The project building has an established site that is turf grass, trees, and shrubs but no work is...

https://leeduser.buildinggreen.com/forum/irrigation-internal-planting-areas There was apparently an addendum, too: "An addendum, ID#100000352 dated 07/19/2010, defines the landscaped area to be considered. It excludes the building footprint so interior plantings...

Both WEp1 and WEc1 state: "The following landscape types may be included or excluded from landscape calculations: vegetated playgrounds, athletic fields, food gardens, and urban agricultural...

Hello Dears,

For the purposes of calculating the pourcentage (%) of the saving of outdoor water compared to baseline, I need the coefficients of evaportranspiration. We could find a ...

We have a Group Project with a well defined and large LEED Boundary that has some formal landscaping with irrigation, some areas (i.e. steep slopes at grading) that have turfgrass with no...

Hello everybody. In our project we do not have outdoor water use except for irrigation. Knowing that only the municipality recycled water is used for irrigation, does this secure 2 points of the...

Hi,

I'm aware of the guidance for this prereq/credit that allows projects with no landscaping to achieve the prereq and two points under Option 1 of the credit.

I'm...

Hello. I have a project that has no landscape consultant, so the architects are asking for assistance in choosing plants that will help us meet the 30% to 50% outdoor water reduction.

Our...