We recently got a review and a comment referring to EAp2 seems quite unreasonable because we think that the reviewer might have misinterpreted the project conditions. That said, if the reviewer has really misinterpreted the project conditions then we should not proceed with the comment which would make a substantial and unnecessary change to the baseline model. Is there any chance of contacting the reviewer before submitting the project for final review just to make sure that the project conditions have been interpreted correctly?

My sustainability consulting firm has been conducting the con docs (drawing) reviews for our clients for LEED compliance, but the method we have been using is not the most streamlined. We're wondering if anyone out there has a more consistent way of conducting the drawing reviews for project credit compliance.

Thanks,

We are working an a project about a building using purchased hot water and purchased chilled water from DES. It is a Building Stand-Alone Scenario (Option 1) as all upstream equipment belong to the DES and are not included in our project.

We are not sure about the way to calculate the Virtual Energy Rates as it is explained in the section 2.4.2.1:
- To calculate the Virtual Electric Rate when the rate is not flat, do we have to include the demand charges in the annual energy cost? The annual electric cost should be divided by the annual electric consumption provided by the preliminary run of the Baseline?
- To calculate the Virtual Fuel Rate (that we need to obtain the District Hot Water Rate), which Fuel is this about? The connected building does not use fossil fuel. What energy consumption do we have to use then?

Thanks a lot.

Hello everyone,

We are currently working on a C&S office building, that has also some retail space and a health club space in one floor. We have been using the default occupancy table in Appendix 1 to determine FTEs and Transients, but there is no mention on these figures for healt clubs, gyms or anything the like. The space will be leased, so we don´t know the actual occupancy. Does anybody know where we could find this information? Thanks!!

We have registered a master site with 3 LEED single-building projects plus a 2-building group. These are all adaptive reuse, LEED-CS v2009 projects. The projects are not under the same GC and have very different schedules.

The site work is under one design team and one contractor,and the implementation will roll out project by project in sequence. There is a parking garage on site that will serve all LEED buildings but is not attached to any and will not be certified itself.

We are planning to submit for a campus design review shortly, which will include SSc1, 2, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1,6.2,7.1, WEc1 and IEQp2; all of which are either "native" to the site (SSc1,2,4.1, 4.3) or can be planned now and implemented for each building.

There are other credits which per the "Guidance" document are allowed to be pursued on a campus basis, that don't work for the master site for this project due to phasing and construction team differences. These we assumed we could pursue on the individual projects (SSc3 and SSc7.2, for example).

But a colleagues mentioned that this was problematic: if we could not pursue a campus-allowed credit on a campus basis, then we forfeited the right to use it for an individual building. A previous comment by Donald Green (Jan 14 2016) also got me worried.

Can someone please straighten me out?

Thanks!

There are seven existing buildings on a site, all owned (the site and the buildings) by the same entity who leases the buildings to tenants. Only one of those buildings is empty and thus cannot be certified. Can this project be certified under LEED EBOM using the campus AND the group approach, excluding only the empty building? And both campus and group approach are eligible how would the project receive one certification if one building would be able to achieve a significantly higher rating than another one?

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Project is after final Design & Construction Review. GBCI denied few credits and we have 25 business days to appeal the results of the Final Review. We wonder now to appeal only one credit within this 25 business days and if this credit will be denied that to appeal another (but then 25 business days will passed from the day of getting final review report)? It is possible ?

For various reasons, my project's Design Submittal got put on hold in 2014 after most of the work effort was done and uploaded to LEED Online. The outstanding items included the completion of the energy model, EAp2/EAc1, and EAc6. These items have recently been completed.

The older documentation has an April 2014 date. The more recent documentation is dated 2016. If the 2014 documentation is still valid to demonstrate compliance with the various credits, is it acceptable to still use it? Or do I need to have the whole team update the documentation to a more consistent, recent date?

We are so close to being ready to submit. I'd hate to have to spend the time replacing documentation, if it is not required. Thanks!

Is the cutoff of "(2) years past substantial project completion" for construction review submittal strictly enforced?

"Following completion of the Design Review phase and within 2 (two) years of substantial project completion, the Project Administrator shall submit, via LEED Online, a complete application for Construction Review "

We have a project that has six buildings on it. The owner wants five of them to be CS, and one of them to be NC. Are we able to mix rating systems within an overall LEED Campus registration?