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Water-resistant flooring

Homes-v4 MRp2:Durability management
posted by  Alec Luong  on 

The credit states to "use water resistant flooring; do not use carpet." Is there a specific list of what LEED considers to be water resistant flooring?

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Wed Jan 27, 2021, 6:24 am

Legal Wood -pilot alternative compliance path

Pilot-Credits MRpc102:Legal Wood
posted by  Dustin Davis  on 

We are very excited about this new legal wood alternative path and a question has come up during the DD phase.

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Sustainability Project Manager
Atkins
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Fri Jul 24, 2020, 5:05 pm

Requirements for LEEDv4 BD+C Tenant Guidelines

NC-v4 MPR2:Must use reasonable LEED boundaries
posted by  Helene Lefkowitz  on 

I am working on a project that will have incomplete spaces that will be finished by tenants.

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Ambient Energy
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Fri Jul 24, 2020, 4:11 pm

COVID-19 Impacts

NC-v4 MRc5:Construction and demolition waste management
posted by  Joshua Mauldin  on 

I'm working on a university project and was just notified by our contractor that from February to June their waste hauler took all waste to landfill due to concerns about their employees being expo

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Thu Jul 23, 2020, 11:18 pm

500-year floodplain

ND-Plan-v4 SLLp5:Floodplain avoidance
posted by  Marc Mondor  on 

The v4 reference manual states "locate on a site that is entirely outside any flood hazard area shown on a legally adopted flood hazard map...".  For projects without a flood map, it says to l

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Thu Jul 23, 2020, 6:11 pm

Asphalt Paving Base Material

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Randy Weatherly  on 

I understand that I can re-use asphalt and concrete paving on the site for this credit, but does this also apply to the 6" type "A" crushed stone aggregate base below these paving types.

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Thu Jul 23, 2020, 4:08 pm

The project is the central energy plant

NC-v4.1 WEc3:Optimize Process Water Use
posted by  Stephanie Graham  on 

Our project is a LEED v4/v4.1BD+C new central cooling plant which uses geothermal for cooling on a university campus.  Besides the plant, the building has office areas for the operators o

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Multi Attribute Optimization

NC-v4 MRc2:Building product disclosure and optimization - environmental product declarations
posted by  Vibha Pai  on 

Is there any USGBC approved program which would help projects achieve credit points pursuing the option 2 multi attribute optimization of MR BPDO-EPD? Thanks in advance!

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Ecoimpact Consulting
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Tue Jul 14, 2020, 11:57 pm

Vegetated external shades

CS-v4 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  Maria Grimm  on 

I am working on a project that is designing external vegetated shades/screens. For local code compliance, we are not allowed to include the vegetated shades in our energy model.

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7group / Energy Opportunities
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Fri Jul 10, 2020, 6:10 pm

NC / CS Mix

NC-v4 EAp2:Minimum energy performance
posted by  Maria Grimm  on 

Question regarding a project that is registered as NC. The project is a approximately 70% residential (NC) and 30% core & shell office.

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Fri Jul 10, 2020, 4:54 pm