In LEED v5, the ‘Enhanced Energy Efficiency’ category receives a total score of 10 points, compared to LEED v4 and v4.1, which allocated 18 points.

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Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the current draft of LEED v5.  Green Seal is a global nonprofit organization with a mission to protect human health and the environment by

Hello, there is a 160,000 SF historic building that will be doing a gut-rehab and has a masonry (brick) exterior that can't be altered.

Under V4.1 the IAQ performance testing for TVOCs was completed using in house IAQ equipment , but V5 changes to the requirement to labaratory based VOC testing.   Based on our experince w

The approach in LEEDv5 is lacking a means to reward and incentivize investment in decarbonization of buildings and excludes or penalizes those who have made significant improvements in reducing car

Operational Carbon Projection and Decarbonization Plan – project-specific modeling of energy use should be a minimum requirement; there is too much uncertainty introduced by allowing simpl

ASSESS EMBODIED CARBON

Please consider the adoption of Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI) for the daylight simulation metric. This annual metric acknolwedges both a lower and upper bound of usable daylight.

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As of LEED v4 Indoor lighting pollution is a part of Minimum Energy performance credit.