Hello,
I'm having some difficulty in figuring out if my project should be certified as one single building, or different building (and certifications) on a campus.

The project is of an university campus, that has 3 buildings in a row, 2 of which will be demolished and 1 (the one in the middle) will be maintained.
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In the place of the 2 demolished buildings, will be constructed new buildings. They have a shared underground parking lot and are also connected by a bridge on the 4th floor.
The building that will be maintained is between the 2 new buildings, under the bridge and over the parking lot and will not be renovated or connected to the new buildings.

My question is, if the new buildings are connected to each other (sharing the underground parking lot structure) but not to the existing building, can I pursue a singular certification and exclude the existing building or do I qualify for a Campus approach?

Does anybody have any experience with the Excel spreadsheet for group energy analysis? It is available here: http://www.usgbc.org/resources/eap2-whole-building-energy-simulation-sum...

I get all sorts of error messages and I'm worried that the output is going to be compromised.

Any assistance or ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

NC 2009 project. Two problems.

First, we were denied Credit WEc3 in Design phase re-submittal. This appeared to be because of a glitch in the way the online form calculates the credit. An explanation & corrected calculation on a sample form that correctly calculated the credit was attached, but it was either not read or not addressed in the text of the denial. Even so, we only missed the point by 0.21% - a quarter of one percent. This was disappointing.

Second, in the course of construction lower-flow fixtures were substituted. We would now meet the credit even when using the glitchy online form. Because there was a design change during construction, can we now re-submit the point without filing an appeal? Or would this have to be done through the appeal process?

Apologies if this has already been addressed in this forum, I was unable to find a similar question.

Intrepid LEEDusers,
The AGMBC indicates that MRc4 is not applicable for Master Site. How would we account for landscaping material that contains recycled content? Do these materials not figure at all in the project cost? What about locally-sourced (i.e. regional) landscape material? Or can we assign them to one or more of the building projects? Has anyone had experience with this?

Thanks!

It looks like V.3 allowed assigning credits to individual team members, but USGBC/LEEDONLINE GROUP PROJECTS does not.

Am I missing something?

We have two apartment buildings on one site. It meets all the requirements for a group since they are being built at the same time and by the same contractors and owned by the same owner. How do we register it? From what I can tell, we should be able to just add up all the areas for the site and for the building, but then I hear that if you check "two buildings" you get bounced. I have read everything available, but I still don't know how to proceed.

It is NOT a campus. We are only building two buildings, both of which we will try to certify.

Hi,

I'm looking for an answer regarding credit SS 3 for a LEED Home. What documentation is required for the SRI? For NC there's a table which states the SRI of concrete being >29. There are no guidelines in the LEED for Home reference guide outlining what is necessary to obtain this credit.

Any input is much appreciated.

Regards,

Jenn Whitney, EAPC Architects Engineers

In a Core and Shell building we are finishing the construction process and we have obtained 47 points in the design stage.
The goal of the owner is a GOLD certification,we must have at least 13 points in the construction credits review .
To date we have just those 13 points but have options to get 4 additional points if is necessary: Appeal two denied design credits and/or buy RECs to comply with EAc6.

Is it possible to decide to appeal the design credits denied and / or purchase RECs after preliminary review of construction credits and prerrequisites?.

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We have a campus with 9 buildings elegible to seek LEED but only some of them will seek the certification (we are still deciding which ones). I have 2 questions:
1) If not all buildings from this property (same owner, same construction contract, it's a set of residential buildings) are seeking LEED, can we still go ahead and seek some credits via master site? Or is the master site strategy only applicable when all buildings from the property are going to be certified?
2) In case it's possible to use the master site strategy, can the LEED Campus boundary coincide with the property line (which will include the other not to be certified buildings)?

Thanks

Now LEED Online only works if I use a Chrome extension to Explorer - it does not work in regular Explorer anymore. Why is this the case? It is extraordinarily frustrating that this is the state of LEED Online. I have not met one client, contractor, engineer, architect, consultant who found this acceptable.