Dear all,

Our client is insisting to submit the preliminary project for LEED review. We have been trying to argue that, if he wants to do split review D+C, the project has to be developed to an executive level to be submitted.

So is there any documentation that says that preliminary projects cannot be submitted, only projects in the executive level? We need to find some sort of "official source" of inromation about this to convice them, because is a public project, therefore it involves a lot of instances...

Thanks!

Our project has hit a bit of a wall and need some guidance on updating credit forms after submitting for review.

The project is going for a split review and we prepared all the design credits to be submitted and subsequently clicked submit for review. However, at this time the project was put on hold due to a major design change. As a result, payment for design review was never made. Since the project's design has changed so much we need to update all the credit forms, but obviously this can't be done because LOv3 is saying that the credits are under review. But the review process hasn't started since payment has not been made.

Is there a way to reverse/cancel our review stage so we can go back and edit the credit forms?

Would appreciate any insight you guys may be able to provide.

Thank you.

If the project is registered according to AGMBC 2010, (Block - Mastersite -Building 1 and Building 2,3 approach)

Do we have to submit the following project information form for Mastersite as well as for Each building? or just for Mastersite?where i can find more information on which forms to be submitted? Thanks

PI F1: Minimum Program Requirements
PI F2: Project Summary Details
PI F3: Occupant and Usage data
PI F4: Schedule and Overview Documents

is it mandatory for a health care facility to register under LEED HC rating system or can it choose to go with LEED NC?

Question:
I have new LEED-NC project for a building on a college campus. It will be the Owner's first LEED building (and deplete any bond funding) on that campus, and they barely have allocated funds for the LEED consultant to take the design -build project through individual LEED-NC project certification, so I assume this is the certification path we will proceed on (and thus NOT utilize AGBMC in registering it as the first project building under a 'Block Master Site registration.) Can the Owner come back sometime in the future --say 3-4 years from now, and have me Register a Master Site for the whole campus to utilize the AGMBC for future projects--and can I then somehow transfer/import this first individual NC project back into the Master site 'block' if that's when the Owner sees the benefit of using the block registration for future campus buildings? It would be nice to have all the documentation under one block listing so the owner could open up any of the campus buildings from the "Block" listing, even if this first building was completed before they came around to registering the Master Site. AND if not, then how do I treat this LEED certified project in my Master Site block?

Appreciate your guidance so I know how to convey future options for LEED certified campus buildings to the Owner.

Quick question in regards to an existing single family home of 1500SF.

Can existing homes be certified under LEED for Homes, or must they go for LEED for EBOM?

Thanks!

Dear All,

a question for a core and shell project.

The LEED reference guide Appendix 1 states :
“Core and shell projects that do not have the final occupancy counts must utilize the default occupancy counts provided in this appendix. Projects that know the tenant occupancy must use the actual occupancy counts, as long as the gross square foot per employee is not greater than that in the default occupancy count table”.

Moreover, in the template “PI Form 3 Occupant and usage data”, 3 options are proposed :

“Actual Occupancy: The actual building occupancy for the LEED building
is available.

Default Occupancy: The actual building occupancy for the LEED building
is NOT available. The project team must use the default occupancy counts.

Estimated Occupancy: The actual building occupancy is unknown AND
the default occupancy counts do not address the LEED building type. The
project team will base the occupancy on an alternative methodology.”

Our project is speculative, therefore we do not know the occupancy but there is an “design occupancy” used to size all HVAC components.

Therefore, I consider that the project falls under “the estimated occupancy option”, is that right ?

Thanks,

Best

I'm working on a project that has a Master Site and 2 buildings, Bldg A and Bldg B. Bldg A is scheduled to be finished and occupied 2 years before the Master Site and Bldg B are finished. From a response Below from Eric Anderson we cannot submit until the Master Site can be submitted. How does this work for our Bldg A if we cannot submit it within the 2 year Sunset Date? We can submit the design credits all at once but not the construction credits.

Eric Anderson
Technical Customer Service Specialist, GBCI
Nov 27 2012
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"Yes. If each building is registered as a separate LEED project and you are using the Campus Credit (aka Master Site, or Part 1) approach, it is acceptable to submit the individual building projects at different times. However, please note that the Master Site project must be submitted before (or at the same time) as the first of the individual bldg projects that wish to utilize campus credits achieved in the Master Site project."

It will be my first time registering a project so I have some doubts I would like to share with you.

Our project is a NC commercial building. We are on the design phase now and we hope to start the construction phase in july 2013.

Since we would like to show a LEED Design Review to our client before starting the construction phase, I am planning to register the project asap and apply for split review.

My questions are:

Q1. Once registered, the design submittal can be done gradually (in batches) or the submittal has to be done at the same time?

Q2. Is there a possibility to download the credit forms, work with them offline and then upload the filled forms later?

Q3. Since we would like to have a LEED Design review by july, which date do you suggest us for the submittal, according to LEED times for reviewing the information?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Dear all,

What is the procedure in order to submit a multipe building project since LEED online is not completely ready for it? We heard that, for the credits that will be pursued via campus, we should completely fill out the master site template and for the templates of each individual project we can make a note in the "special circunstances" section that the credit will be pursued via master site.

Is this assumption correct or is there another way to fill out the template for submission?

Thanks