We currently have two project seeking certification separately on a single campus. The two projects have completed all of the forms and have just not yet submitted for review. We now have an additional two buildings on the same campus that will be renovated and will be seeking certification. Would it be in our best interest to transition these four buildings into a campus certification approach? Would previous documentation need to be completely revised? Or could the previous two buildings be submitted as is and a new approach be taken with the two new buildings currently in concept design?

(Dear H.K.C.B. Heendeniya - Sorry this is not stacking as a reply under your original comment, but I was unable to get the 'reply' button to appear there.) Since each of the three buildings you described appears to contain more than 1,000 square feet of 'gross floor area', the general rule of thumb would be to treat them each as a separate LEED-certifiable building. Then, the team would have the option of applying one or both of the approaches outlined in the AGMBC (http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/Archive/General/Docs10486.pdf). In particular, the 'group credit' (aka group certification) approach may make sense in a situation like this if all three buildings will be built under a singe construction contract/scope of work.

Occasionally, a different approach might be warranted due to the disposition of integral functions amongst related buildings or other such special circumstances. Teams facing complicated scenarios like this are encouraged to use the Contact form (http://www.gbci.org/org-nav/contact/Contact-Us/Project-Certification-Que...) to explain their situations and obtain feedback directly from USGBC/GBCI before registering their projects as this will help ensure a smoother certification process.

Has anyone else experienced issues with Adobe plug-in and javascript within the new website? I have trouble-shooted with various browsers (google chrome, firefox, etc) to no avail....I cannot find a list of setting requirements posted on the USGBC website for this new platform either! I am at a stand-still and cannot get the credit forms to appear and/or save the entered data in a newly registered project using the Campus/Groups site. Any tips would be greatly appreciated as going through GBCI customer service on such matters can be challenging. Thanks!

Dear all,

I have a NC 2009 project that is located on a site of 216315 sq.ft. The project boundary includes 3 physically separated buildings viz. a production plant of 42,152 sq.ft, a canteen building of 7882 sq.ft and a toilet block of 3950 sq.ft. The generator room and the compressor rooms are attached to the toilet block and the boiler room is attached to the canteen building.

By looking at the description do you suggest we should apply for a campus registration? In my opinion for this kind of set up campus registration does not make sense because 3 buildings are not mutually exclusive in terms of occupancy, operation and resource sharing.

Please give me your ideas and if you need more information about the site to make a judgement please reply and I will provide the additional information .

Thank you very much.

Dear Community,

Is there a way to expedite the CIR ruling process?

I was looking throughout the forum and realized that everyone would make reference to an "8-hour shift". Would we count the lunch period as part of that 8-hours, and therefore it would actually be either a 9-hour (1 hour lunch) or a 8.5 hour (30-min lunch). Or do we not count lunch as part of the shift? Or maybe it doesn't really matter? I just want to be sure I am indicating correctly on my spread sheet the FTE shift hours.

the LEED NC reference manual doesnt actually seem to have directions anywhere on how to arrive at FTE. It makes reference to it as if its just innate human knowledge we are born with. The appendix has some info for core and shell, but its insufficient and also im left uncertain if it also applies to everything other than core and shell. the conversations below seem to be focused on specific cases.

How do we begin to go about this? does the owner/design team have to give us the number of employees that work at any given shift? or is it done by sq ft/occupant load? ad what about visitors ("transients")? im really need to start from the very beginning and do not see any fundamental info anywhere on this.

im clearly not aware of some critical document (?).

I have a building that has 2 floors, each with 3 FT shifts, but with different personnel counts. I came up with an excel sheet, but I'm not sure if my ending calculation of the FTE for the building as a whole is the correct way? Or if I need to show FTE per floor separately. Here's what I came up with.

Shift 1 - 6:30am-3:00pm
shop (1st floor) ---310 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 2635 (total hrs/day)
engineering (2nd floor) ---100 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 850 (total hrs/day)

Shift 2 - 2:30pm-11:00pm
shop (1st floor) ---310 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 2635 (total hrs/day)
engineering (2nd floor) ---60 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 510 (total hrs/day)

Shift 3 - 10:30pm-7:00am
shop (1st floor) --50 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 425 (total hrs/day)
engineering (2nd floor) ---30 x 8.5 (hrs/day) = 255 (total hrs/day)

FTE (M-F) 5 day work week
shift 1 --- 3485 (hrs/day) x 260 (# work days/yr) = 906,100 (total hrs)
shift 2 ---3145 (hrs/day) x 260 (# work days/yr) = 817,700 (total hrs)
shift 3 ---680 (hrs/day) x 260 (# work days/yr) = 176,800 (total hrs)
TOTAL HRS worked/yr----------------------------------= 1,900,600 (total hrs)
1,900,600 / 2080 (hrs of work days/year) = 913.75 = 914 (FTE)

Can someone help and tell me if I did this correct?

In LEED online version 2.0 there was the option to request and download the zip file for the complete, certified project. The zip file contained all the templates and files upload to the site. Has anyone downloaded this completed file on v3 or know where I can find it?

I am about to submit one of our projects for review under v2 version. I want to make sure that the reviewer will take in consideration only requirements that apply to this version and not any latter versions and addendums. Is there a way to ensure a fair review under the version that was applicable (way back) when this project began?