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New Bus Depot: LEED BD+C or C+S?

LEED Rating System Selection
posted by  Cynthia Kaplan  on 

My project is the new construction of a 3,000 s.f. bus depot in a small city. Part of the space will be leased to a retailer at a later date, most likely a convenience store or coffee shop.

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Fri Nov 27, 2015, 6:12 pm

Option 1: Limited Turf Area

EBOM-v4 SSc5:Site management
posted by  Stephanie Donovan  on 

Hello - the site I'm looking at already has under 25% turf area. In fact it has no turf, only vegetation.

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Wed Sep 14, 2016, 4:23 pm

IAQ Procedure is NOT acceptable?

CI-2009 IEQp1:Minimum IAQ Performance
posted by  James Keohane  on 

I recently received a Design Review comment advising that the IAQ procedure included in Chapter 6 of the ASHRAE 62.1-2007 is not an acceptable tool to demonstrate compliance.

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Tue Jan 24, 2017, 2:21 pm

Preferred Parking

Retail-NC-v2009 SSc4:Alternative transportation
posted by  Kevin Flynn  on 

The LEED NC-Retail v2009 credit 4.3 and 4.4 to provide preferred parking for LEV/FE vehicles and Carpools appears to require that the project identify employee parking separate from customer parkin

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Tue Aug 15, 2017, 9:01 pm

Existing Site Conditions altered w/in project boundary

NC-2009 SSc4.3:Alternative Transportation—Low-Emitting and Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
posted by  Jim Pugh  on 

All, We submitted a dormitory project for a university in which there was a very substantial amount of existing parking between our new building and another part of our project (a new, relatively

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Attempting to return ceiling tiles from demo

CI-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Dean Wilson  on 

We are performing a 2009 Commercial Interior for the reuse of a 7000 sq ft decommissioned Army base building. In the demolition phase, we collected old ceiling tiles to return to the manufacturer.

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Thu Feb 11, 2016, 7:57 pm

MPR 6 for Single Tenant Building

CI-2009 PIf1:Minimum Program Requirements
posted by  Jonathan Weiss  on 

We are working on a project where we are the sole tenant in the building. Can we use the whole building meters for our MPR6 reporting if there is no other user in the building?

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Fri Nov 21, 2014, 5:24 pm

View Preserving Shade

Retail-CI-v2009 IEQc8.1:Daylight and views - daylight
posted by  Lon Stephenson  on 

Is there any criteria as far as what a View Preserving Shade actually is? There are openness factors as low as 1%; yes, you can see through them, but not much.

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Sat Aug 26, 2017, 11:33 pm

Mechanical System by Future Tenant

CS-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Performance
posted by  Andrew Chan  on 

We have an office core/shell project that we are considering for certification. The Owner may want to just design a small mechanical unit to service the restrooms and not much more.

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Fri Jul 1, 2016, 1:54 pm

Calculations for an Elementary School

Schools-NC-v4 LTc7:Reduced parking footprint
posted by  Cynthia Kaplan  on 

We are trying to figure out how to translate our ITE calcs properly for an elementary school project.

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 1:00 am