I am working on a LEED-CS 2009 project that is half office and half lab space. Not all of the tenants are certain yet so we opted to select the 'default occupancy' option. I noticed that this option includes zero transients, and I cannot manually change it since it is default. This concerns me because we need to estimate transients in our water calculations. Is it going to be a problem that transient counts do not line up between PIf3 and WEp1?

Since this is the first time I need to submit an appeal, I would love some advice on the order of what needs to be done online and what I should expect.

LEED Online:
I haven't touched any of the buttons in the overview tab since our final review came in. I haven't uploaded any new documentation nor updated the forms. Should I begin by revising/updating credits forms, just as I would between a prelim and final review, and then hit the "enter appeal stage" button when all is ready to go? or vice versa? Is hitting the appeal button for when all is ready and I'm prepared to pay and promptly submit all appeals?

What to expect:
Now that we are entering the appeal phase (clarification first level appeal only), will it be the same reviewers or does an appeals board get involved where I should expect a much higher level of scrutiny? Is it recommended that I simply address the technical advice, or do I need to re-inspect everything? I've addressed cross credit compliance issues but found a few very minor errors not mentioned in reviewer comments that don't actually change calculation outcomes. I'm worried if I change something that wasn't brought up before, it might open an unnecessary can of worms. Is this the sort of thing that will cost our project an additional $800 because all will be examined by a broader group of reviewers? Or is just addressing the technical comments sufficient?

Any advice would be great. Thanks

Hello,
I need some help about the leed-online forms.
This is my first Project as Project admin. We have paid the registration fee and completed registration, and have selected split review.
The PI forms and prerequisites forms are available right away. However, I cannot reach to the other credits forms. Do I have to complete the prerequisite forms, to have other forms? How the process will proceed, could you give me some information?
And also, I cannot see any regional priority credits? At which stage they will be online?
Thank you in advance

We have been denied a prerequisite from the Design Phase after the second review, and now we need to appeal them or start with the construction review.
We have two main questions:
Do we have any timeline for appealing?
Is it correct to fix it during the construction review?
Thankyou

Hi There,

We are currently looking to develop a very energy efficient villa in U.A.E. Does LEED for homes rating is available outside U.S as well? Does anyone have any information about the green raters in this region.

As the project is less than three storey and area approximately 2000sqft- 3500 sqft. LEED NC is not applicable for this.

In this case can LEED be applied for villa projects in this part of the world?Can anyone please provide guidance above.

In anticipation,

Regards,

Imran

If we are appealing EAp2 and IEQp1 for $500 each, do I also need to pay to remove another already awarded credit?

For reference, our task lighting provisions are complicated. We've been awarded the LIghting Controllability IEQcr6.1 credit, but it's affecting our EAp2 calculations. We have a number of 2-person offices where a sensor was provided to turn on overhead lighting to each individual deskand turn off that half of the room when one desk was not occupied. The reviewer comments said that providing the "capacity" for task lights would enable us to achieve this credit. We have outlets for task lighting but no actual fixtures were provided by the owner.

What did the reviewer mean by "capacity" and should we just drop this credit? Will we need to pay $500 to drop a credit during an appeal phase or how does this work?

LEED NC v2.2 is not as specific as LEED for Schools v3 for the FTE in schools.

It seems that for different credits, different FTEs may be reasonable in this building type.

First: SSc4.2 > For bicycles racks I chose to follow LEED for Schools v3 calculations where students from kinder to 3rd grade are not expected to use bikes and are excluded from calculations.

Second: WEc2&c3 > For potable water consumption LEED NC v2.2 clearly states students as transients that have less daily uses than FTEs. It seems to me that these students that are from 8:00am to 2:00pm will have the same daily uses than a full time occupant.

Questions.

1. Is my FTE calculation for SSc4.2 reasonable?
2. Should I leave the students as transient or as full time?

THANKS

Our project will certify buildings under mid rise LEED for Homes using ASHRAE 90.1 Appendex G energy modeling to demonstrate an average 10% improvement in energy efficiency. However the first floor commercial spaces will not be designed and fully leased when we would like to submit for Stage 3 ND Review. What is required of the developer for achieving both of the prerequisites (minimum energy & water efficiency), where commercial tenant spaces are not yet built out...lease language like a core and shell project OR must the future tenants actual do energy modeling and water use calculations to demonstrate compliance to the developer.

Hello,

I'm currently working in a french engineering office. We mostly work on LEED - NC buildings and i'm trying to find the limit size for using LEED for HOMES.
We might work on student housing with approximately 40 or 50 studios of 200 sqft in France, so should i refer to LEED NC or HOMES ?

Thanks,

Quentin

We're in a situation where two existing buildings, Building A and B, are in the same campus. Building A is already LEED EB:O&M certified as an individual project (no campus credits) while we're currently working on LEED EB:O&M for building B. Is it possible to implement the EB:O&M campus approach at this point? For instance, if Building A, as an individual project, has already claimed most of the surrounding landscape in its boundary, is it possible to reclaim the same landscape in the campus boundary shared by Building A and B?