From what I have read on this website, my understanding is that if we are not installing any plumbing fixtures as part of the Core & Shell work, then we must make the water reduction a requirem

My question is whether an inoperative door qualifies as an entry, and thus needs a 7.5 m buffer area.

I am working on achieving LEED for a convention centre in Canada.

On our site we have several items that will be salvaged from our demo'd building/site (furniture, playground equipment) that will be used with the new building/site.

How do you count products that are not rated by ENERGY STAR, like microwave ovens? Can you exempt them entirely from the total cost of durable goods?

We are having a serious issue with all of our metal scrap being stollen from the jobsite dumpster. This has impacted our percentage for recycling dramatically. We are currently at only 28%.

We are removing a lot of trees on our construction site, if we turn it into mulch does this qualify toward our CWM credit? or would it be material reuse? thanks for your help!

I've read all the comments here, but I'm still at a loss. I have a 3-building campus project in which one building is LEED CI and the others are LEED NC.

Has anyone ever used the alternative compliance option for this prerequisite by following Appendix A of ASHRAE 62.1-2007?

In an automobile service garage with 25 "stations" (there are not 25 employees, but worst case, I am assuming LEED will require each lift to be considered a "workstation").