Sean, there is some guidance on non-contiguous project boundaries in the MPR Supplemental Guidance doc that you may find helpful....

Elizabeth, there's a bunch of information on what USGBC is calling the Building Performance Partnership on their website. Also,...

Yes, LEED documentation should be in English.
I would not go through the effort of translating product data sheets. In most cases would the relevant data be in Arabic numerals that anyone...

I've seen questions like this in other contexts, especially with projects wanting to get a green certification reflecting what takes place in the building, not just the design of the building...

In my experience it runs the gamut... some project teams aren't aware of them, but then they hit some budget shortfall and are looking for extra money to meet LEED goals, and they find out about...

Sean, since these are in your LEED boundary they should be considered for all relevant LEED credits—which will be most of them. Since they're small and unoccupied, I don't think you need to...

Great Analysis of the two rating systems. I am a LEED AP O+M and for my own knowledge I will be analyzing the 2009 LEED O+M system with the proposed 2012 LEED O+M system. If anyone is interested...

It seems like the value of each credit has yet to be determined. I thought there would be some sort of value comparison released with all future versions of LEED, similar to the 2009 version....

Thank you for the buildinggreen post. I work for a company that does a lot of new building...

Hi Linda, can you post this question to the appropriate LEEDuser credit forum? Seems like that would be NC SSc2.