Our project is being submitted for a split review. The design credits have not yet been sent for review to USGBC. The project is entering the physical Construction Phase and as a result Contractor equipment submittals are being reviewed by the CxA. The CxA is reviewing submittals based on a specified set of design documents that the project team agreed would be part of the design credit submission. Since that set of design documents have been issued there have been some changes to equipment and the drawings have been revised to match this new equipment. As a result the contractor submittals dont always match the design documents the CxA is comparing them to.

How should I handle this?

We are ready to submit our revised application for Final Review, and want to know how/where we should submit/upload the response letter that we've prepared. We understand that this is not a required document but a consultant strongly recommended that we provide one as a way of summarizing the clarifications we've made. Of course, we've also addressed all review comments within the applicable credit forms.

Hello, I was wondering if someone can help me with calculating the FTE for a Dorm. All of the full and part-time employees are residents within the building. The LEED form says that residents are not to be counted for in the Peak occupants and FTE Occupants. This seems pretty straight forward, but classifying everyone as a resident and having 0 for an FTE is definitely not correct. I thought LEED requires a FTE of at least 1 as an MPR. Does anyone have any experience with this type of situation.

Our project is a newly built industrial development where the majority of buildings will be industrial and not certified, but there will be office and administration buildings as well, from which at least two will aim LEED certification. We are considering campus registration. The two project sites probably will not be contiguous, the master site is planned to include all area developed by this project and falls under the same ownership.
There is no campus credit option in case of SSp1, however my question is if it was enough to develop one ESC plan for the area of the master site, considering that the major site works will be done to the site as a whole. There is not a real chance to handle the little office buildings’ area separately. How do you suggest to develop the ESC plan in this case? Is it eligible to develop a plan for the full site that falls under the same ownership and development? Thank you in advance!

I have a Lacrosse Field and New Locker Room that will be used throughout the year for the purpose of just games which seats 1000 spectators, but only on games days. For most of the year, it will be only occupied by one FTE (the coach), but the lockers always have to be accessible to the team players throughout the year. How do I calculate the visitors, peak, average, when it is only on games days and off days with just the team and coaches, janitors, etc...

Thanks in advance,

Susan

Does anyone know how a credit/prerequisite can be marked as "ready" in the new LEED Online (v4)? Even if a form has been completed and all relevant documentaion uploaded, the corresponding credit does not offer an option to be marked as ready for review.

Our project is going to submit for Construction Review for a BD+C project. We applied a split review. Design Credits are approved. During Construction some room dimensions changed. For the credit IEQc5, there was no change (entryway systems were intalled) but since some of the room dimensions changed, the plan is not 100% exact. We do comply with the credit and the documentation we supplied shows the entryways system which is in place but technically that document is not 100% accurate. This credit has been approved in design phase. My question is: Since we still comply and there is no change related to that credit, can we leave it like this, or, since the plan is not 100% accurate do we need to resubmit this credit? What would be the recommended approach?

I tried looking through all of the questions on this board for a similar one and didn't see it; hopefully this isn't a repeat.

I am currently in the process of pulling together the design submittal for NCv2009. The Owner is trying to get a PV array donated to the project, so at this time is is unclear how large the array will be. The energy modeler has estimated 10kW (the minimum size it will be, which meets the credit intent for 1%) but the roof has been sized for an array as large at 30kW. Question: Should we wait until construction to submit EAc1 and EAc2 when we know the array size for sure, or should we submit them both in the design phase assuming the 10kW and resubmit in the construction phase if the Owner is able to get a larger array donated? Would there be a fee for changing the array size later, since this would be something that happened during the course of construction, not a calculation change? A side note, we are barely able to certify the building, so we are counting points very closely. I'd like to confirm as many points as possible in the design submittal so we know where we stand, but obviously we don't want to incur any extra costs for the Owner.

I went through many iterations to be able to upload when I started this project last year. I finally settled on MSIE 10 in NOT Compatibility mode for working with forms and Mozilla for uploading. Now that doesn't work any more. I have tried the "Check System Requirements" and downgraded to Mozilla 21.0. Which doesn't work either.

Any ideas out there?

Robert Wichert
Robert@wichert.org

Does anyone else out there have problems downloading Reviewer's project reports from LEED Online(V3)? I click the icon and a screen opens with a message "Your Report is Being Prepared" with a swirling icon below. No matter how long I wait (up to an hour sometimes) the report never downloads. I've attempted downloads during off peak hours, just to be sure it wasn't a problem with the server being overloaded; same result. I tried getting advice via "Feedback", but basically got an apology saying "it can take some time", but they were nice enough to email me the report I was trying to access at the time. I'm currently involve in 3 different project and have the same problem with all of them. As far as the other features/functions of the site, no problems; just the reports. Can this be a function of processor speed, memory, operating system?...although I have not had any luck with either my desktop or laptop and they run different versions of windows and one is a bit faster than the other. Other members of the project team do not have this issue, which makes it even more of a mystery. Any ideas/advice would be appreciated!