What is the purpose of defining Project LEED boundaries when all the buildings are part of a Master Site application?
I'm stymied (already!) by the requirements to provide the basic information required on the individual project's PI forms - number of parking spaces? Area within LEED boundary? Do we provide the Master Site numbers, or the numbers derived specifically within the Project LEED boundary? If the latter - for what purpose? If the former - isn't this information redundant - it should be on the Master Site PI forms.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone,
We just received the final construction review, and found out that our project got 59 points awarded. As we expected, the owner wants to achieve Gold certification; therefore, we are trying to include one new credit in an appeal review, is that even possible?

Our other option would be to try to appeal the Green Power credit (which has been awarded already), to purse it again with exemplary performance and get that additional point we need. Has anyone done that before? Any suggestions?
We understand that the appeal stage would be only for denied credits, but at this point, we are not in a position to follow that option.

If we have questions regarding GBCI reviewer comments that were sent to us after preliminary design review submission, can we just submit them when we submit for final design review, or those need to be asked prior to the final design submission?
If prior, what is the way to ask those questions?
Thanks!

1) My project is to renovate one barracks in US military base outside US States. It has three floors and 70 bedrooms with toilet. One central kitchen on each of floors will be located. My team is confusing between LEED NC rating system and LEED Homes. I hope to use the LEED NC rating system instead of LEED Homes. I would like to know whether it is possible or not.

2) If LEED NC is applied to my project, which option(Regidential or Commercial) can be used for SS C4.2, bicycle sorage calculation and IEQ Pr2, ETS Control?

Can a new campus tennis facility be LEED certified if there are only transient users (ie. no employees, no office, only locker rooms)? If so, do we have to calculate the transient users as FTE's instead of transient users on PIF3?

Thanks,
Michael

I am attempting to post on the UW's website a consistent appearance of the scorecards earned on UW LEED projects, so that I can provide a link on each project http://f2.washington.edu/cpo/sustain/leed-projects This includes: LEED-NC v2, 2.1 and 2.2, LEED-CS v1, LEED-CI v2, LEED-EB O&M.

Thanks for the link to the 2009 scorecards. Can you please provide a link to past scorecards?

I have been calculating FTEs for projects with shift work based on the 8 hour day and 40 hour work week. So, for example, if a project has three 9-hr shifts per day with 10 people per shift at 7 days a week, the FTE would be:
(10 people X 3 shifts X 9 hours X 7 days) / 40 hours = 47.25 FTE (48 FTE).

However, I have been questioning this becuase that 48 FTE calcuation is carried through to SSc4.2 for the shower calc and the WEp1 for the water usage calc. It seems that using the 40 hour base work week comparison unnecessarily inflates or double-counts workers by condensing 7 days of working to 5 days. For example, in the water usage calculation, you input annual days of operation for each Fixture Group. This will inflate the water usage because one should input 365 days of operation for the Fixture Group(as opposed to 260 for a typical 5 day week).

The SSc4.2 shower calc would seem to be inflated as well, although the weekend workers aren't double-counted like they are in the WEp1 form. I assume the shower calc is suppose to accommodate a typcial work day, but there will never be 48 people working on a typcial day at the facility.

So, I guess my question is, would it be more appropriate for projects with unusual shift work to look at typical 24 hr day, rather than a 40 hour work week? Thus the FTE would be:
(10 people X 3 shifts X 9 hours) / 8 hours = 33.75 FTE (34 FTE).

Any thoughts?

E.g. a project has a building which includes Hotel and offices. The owners / operators shall be two different parties and they want separate certificates.

Yet, they will share the same car park, same landscape, same bicycle storage... etc. Would it be possible that I apply certificates separately but they share the same facilities?

If not, does that mean I must awkwardly draw LEED project boundary to separate the the carpark/ landscape/ bicycle storage?

Or whether the multiple building rules (campus) could be applied, so I can share these facilities under two certificates?

Many thanks!

I am actively searching for guidance on how to input water efficiency for a two building group project. Does anybody know where that might be found. It is NOT in the Leedonline Resources.

Thanks!

Robert Wichert