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Any advantage over v4?

Schools-NC-v4.1 SSc5: Heat Island Reduction
posted by Chelsea Miller on May 3, 2019, 3:43 pm

Is there any advantage to replacing this specific LEED v4 credit with LEED v4.1? I thought I had read somewhere that Non-roof and Roof measures could be separated, so that one might obtain at...

Process Crop in Open Space Calculations

NC-v4 SSc3: Open space
posted by Candice Rogers on May 6, 2019, 10:38 am

Good morning -

I have a 6 acre site of which 1 acre is a hemp crop.  The crop is intended to be educational and research centered.  It will have walking paths to it.  That said, it does...

LCA Baseline

NC-v4 MRc1: Building life-cycle impact reduction
posted by Elizabeth Repin on May 6, 2019, 12:48 pm

Hello:

Can we only change envelope assemblies for baseline; do all other items to be the same as the proposed building? 

Thank You! 

Exemplar performance as per the previous V4

CS-v4.1 LTc7: Reduced parking footprint
posted by Ciaran McCabe on May 7, 2019, 11:43 am

Hi,

If I am pursuing Reduced Parking Footprint under LEED v4.1 is possible to achieve exemplar performance as per the previous V4 ?

Thanks.  

LCA in accordance with ISO 14071

CS-v4.1 MRc2: Environmental Product Declarations
posted by Jennifer Pitkanen on May 8, 2019, 8:09 am

Hi,

In MRc2 Option 1, the second bullet under "Life-cycle assessment and environmental product declarations" says:

Product-specific Type III EPD -- Internally Reviewed. Products...

Heat Island Effect Potential

NC-v4 SSc1: Site assessment
posted by Samantha Varela on May 8, 2019, 11:50 am

Is there an accurate urban heat island map to utilize for this section of the Site Assessment?

I have only found very vague (a whole country) or very specific site if the local...

Option 2: Inputting Direct and Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance in IES

NC-v4 EQc7: Daylight
posted by on May 9, 2019, 12:38 pm

I'm working in IES to evaluate the daylight LEED credit option 2 for a project, and one of the requirements is to input direct and diffuse horizontal irradiance. Does anyone know how this can be...

Other Buildings within LEED Boundary

NC-v4 SSc5: Heat Island Reduction
posted by Max Krueger on May 9, 2019, 3:40 pm

Should other buildings within the LEED boundary be counted towards this credit? These existing buildings will not be getting certified.

CIBSE Narrow Plan Requirement

NC-v4 EQp1: Minimum indoor air quality performance
posted by gjn on May 9, 2019, 11:25 pm

Hello everyone,

Are there any alternatives for complying CIBSE AM10 requirement for narrow plan? Our project will have a building width that is greater than 15m by almost 4m even with the...

Bike numbers for Resort

NC-v4 LTc6: Bicycle facilities
posted by Neshat Sakeena on May 12, 2019, 1:39 am

I am working on a resort project located at a remote location. The resort has a bicycle track that connects to single room chalets that will have an...