As of today, can campuses be documented using www.leedonline.com or do we need to use the new site https://www.usgbc.org/leedonline.new/ ? No one staffing the phones at GBCI can answer me.

I have 3 shifts in a 24-hour period. In the first shift, I have a total of 410 occupants during first 2 hours of that shift. After that, the occupant load reduces to 260, reason being is that 150 of the workers in the building actually disburse to all their other actual shops outside of what will be this new facility. Could I count those 150 workers as transient or part-time because they physically are only in the building for 2 hours?

Our project entails an existing Senior Housing and Care Campus in California consisting of 10 buildings.

Our client/owner/operator wants to achieve LEED Silver for 6 of the buildings which will be going through significant enough renovation that they will fall under LEED – NC rating. All the buildings are of similar construction type (Type V) wood frame. The other 4 buildings are going through minor cosmetic work and will not go for LEED certification at this time.

3 of the buildings are for Assisted Living Care, 2 will be for Memory Care and one is a Commons/Community function. Timing and phasing of construction will be driven by the important needs of continued and uninterrupted housing and care of the various groups of residents which will entail shifting them from building to building. This is a significant part of the logistics of keeping the campus operating smoothly during a little over 26 month construction period

We are looking to take full advantage of LEED AGMBC. The goal is to have all 6 buildings under a one Group Certification and thus share a single certification,.

Our primary question is whether or not a 3 year time period of completion of all buildings is allowable under one single certification even though obviously not all buildings will be under construction at the same time? As we read the AGMBC Application Guide of 10.31.2011, we see that all buildings “that comprise the group must be under the same construction contract and constructed at the same time.”
The 6 bldgs will be under the same construction contract - the question is how “constructed at the same time” is to be interpreted? - literally? Simultaneous construction of all 6 bldgs is simply not possible due the phasing required by housing and caring of the residents and this will mean one building at a time.

It seems that this project’s unique phasing is preventing our client from the advantage of the group approach and forcing them to go through the added effort of 6 separate registrations.

Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi, we are working on a residential project. I would like to know how do we calculate the FTE and should we consider visitors and peak transients . Is there any guideline that we can follow ??

I have a Master Site application that is currently in Design and Construction application decision. When I go to the “Overview” tab in LEED Online, I have (4) button options, one of which is “Proceed to Post-Certification”. Does anyone know if I need to hit this button to “accept” the application decision and make the allocated credits available to the associated individual LEED projects to be certified? Any clarification is appreciated!

I am working on a campus project that will have two distinct buildings - an office building and a hotel with an attached convention center. I have concerns with how to document certain building specific prerequisite for the master site because I cannot delete the prequisites from LEED Online. For example, the energy models for EAp2 Minimum Energy Performance will be different and perhaps not even both complete when we submit for design review, as the master site must be submitted before or at the same time as the first building on the campus.

My question is, how do we document the prerequisites for instances like this? Do we use the information from building one and then upload the new models/water use calcs/other building specific credits under that buildings project title and not master site?

An April 16 2013 article on the USGBC website, regarding multiple building certification, mentions "Group Certification, which allows project teams with separate buildings that are substantially similar to certify as one project that shares a single certification."

I am unable to find any other reference to the need for buildings in a group to be "substantially similar".

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this requirement?

Many thanks!

We are currently working on an EBOM submission with a deadline of 12/23. Given that it's the holidays, we've had some trouble tracking down some last minute details, so we were considering asking for an extension of deadline. We want to avoid extending the PP, but we need another week or so to confirm some data. Is this possible and will it affect us?

I'm appealing WEp1. We built in extra water saving measures. It seems that leedonline wants to charge me to update WEc3. Surely that is not fair.

Dear Sirs,

I Was wondering whether the LEED for Homes scheme is now available for international projects. Last year it was still a "Pilot" scheme, if I'm not mistaken.

Also, are all the BD+C schemes now available for international projects (including healthcare, hospitality, data centers)?

Thanks!