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Healthcare-v2009 MRc5: Furniture and medical furnishings
posted by Catherine Blakemore on Jun 4, 2013, 12:44 pm

Under Option 1 what does the following actually mean?

If the total weight is more than five percent of the product by weight, furniture components must be included.

Cool Initiative

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posted by Kathryn West on Jun 5, 2013, 5:18 pm

I call dibs on the Bahamas and Maldives! :)

I'm surprised the Maldives haven't documented LEED compliance for any buildings they are very eco-friendly. It's interesting that some...

Campus projects with different rating system

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posted by Lolita Wu on Jun 7, 2013, 4:28 am

Hi all,
We are working on a master site project with three single buildings in the block. Two office buildings are pursuing LEED CS and one hotel building is pursuing LEED NC. They share...

Construction Documents

General forums
posted by Scott Robb on Jun 11, 2013, 4:53 pm

Where would the best place be to locate a comprehensive set of "standard" LEED contract documents. I am talking about "New Construction" and "Commercial Interiors".

Missed it by a year!

General forums
posted by Silvia Ruiz on Jun 12, 2013, 12:39 pm

Studio Domus designed the first LEED certified project in Guatemala, which was awarded certification in April 2012... Very cool initiative!

Moveable Walls for Views Calculations?

NC-2009 IEQc8.2: Daylight and views - views
posted by Joanne Sawatzky on Jun 12, 2013, 6:10 pm

Are moveable walls considered open or closed for Views calculations?

I read furniture and partitions are not included:
Does furniture need to be included in floor plan when...

First in Africa?

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posted by Mike Barker on Jun 12, 2013, 9:36 pm

We have Africa's first LEED 2009 NC Gold in the bag, as well as Africa's greenest factory ( LEED Silver ). The race is on for Africa's first Platinum building ?

LEED works well in Africa...

Shuttle takes 10min or less to get to the first bus stop

NC-2009 SSc4.1: Alternative transportation - public transportation access
posted by Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira on Jun 13, 2013, 3:59 pm

Hi, I was wondering if I can get this credit if my shuttle stops at a bus stop 10min or less after it departs from the project. Although the bus stop is more than 2 miles away, the addenda refers...

LEED v4 Homes

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posted by Alicia Villanueva on Jun 17, 2013, 5:47 pm

The new LEED v4 is intended to be fully applicable in projects outside the US.
I have navigated through the new LEED for Homes v4 credits but I have not found yet how the new rating system...

Default Occupancy and WEp1

NC-2009 PIf3: Occupant and Usage Data
posted by mary ostafi on Jun 18, 2013, 12:32 pm

I am working on a LEED-CS 2009 project that is half office and half lab space. Not all of the tenants are certain yet so we opted to select the 'default occupancy' option. I noticed that this...