For credit, is it necessary to make calculations within the plan, regarding the baseline calculation, the reporting period? Or is it just describing the elements to do the calculations?

The mission of LEED, as outlined in the Strategic Plan, is to ensure that buildings create spaces that promote human and environmental well-being.

As a construction sustainability practitioner who is neck deep in LEED, C&D waste diversion, and circularity, I had the following comments/changes to this credit:

General Comment: The use of smart and connected technologies within and surrounding buildings can support the goals, objectives, and agendas of LEED v5 to measure, monitor, an

My biggest comment--if I were limited to one change--is to the overall credit category weights. I raised this back during our summits and committee presentations.

Within the confines of the BuildingGreen safe space, I wanted to share the Forced Labor in the Building Material Supply Chain Mitigation Framework I shared at the 3/1 First Friday Fika.

Overall: I like the simplified point & percentage threshold structure! Much easier to communicate to a contractor than the v4.1 version. 

Paints & coatings:

The difference to LEED v4 is that the credit 'Optimized Building Products' only takes into account NON-STRUCTURAL building products in the optimization process.

Under ID+C category to claim EPD itself is highly challenging.

This appendix shall be updated periodically such that it captures the latest trends and measures available in the market and this database should help any new project who tries to impleme