I would just like to confirm the points applicable for GIBc2. For an entirely residential development, if 90% of the buildings comply with the criteria set out in the document, is that worth 2 points?

The number of points is set out for the various thresholds described in the non-residential section.

Thanks!

sorry for the repeated posting but i had embedded a similar query in another comment previously posted on this page:

we have a query on one of our projects (an industrial project), with a 'shower house' (ablutions block) with ONE FTE. The 'shower house' is the central ablution facility for the entire site and will be used by around 350 people/day and in this sense plays a support role to the industrial buildings.

We want to include the shower house in the certification and are trying to find the best way to do this:

1. should we include the shower house as a space in the group of industrial buildings we are certifying? the shower house makes up less than 6% of the floor area or
2. should we certify the shower house separately?

our sense is that we should certify the 'shower house' as a separate building, since other than playing a support function to the industrial spaces on the site it cannot be naturally slotted into any group of buildings. My first question is therefore whether this would be an accurate assumption to make?

Following on from the string of conversation on the topic previously, we are considering two options how to account for FTE usage of the 'shower house':

1. since we know who will use the 'shower house' from across the project (LEED projects only), we can calculate these FTEs as visitors (from the other LEED projects on the site) and transients (in this case drivers) in the calculations for WEp1

2. another option - but this may be a bit way out - could be to treat the shower house water use as process water - given that the employees will shower as a result of the process on the site?

we would imagine though that option 1 would be our best bet?

many thanks!

What level of detail in the building systems narrative is expected? The review team asks for "a description of all base building systems and types of controls." My inclination is to keep it simple, but I could just as easily upload the whole Basis of Design and the review team would have more than enough information.

The Project of concern is a Hotel Resort that is made up of 1 Main Hotel Building that includes Dining, Bar, Indoor and Outdoor Swimming Pools, Gym, Specialty Shop, Spa, Back of House and Services Yard.

In addition to the main hotel building, there are 6+3+2 cluster type small independent buildings that are scattered around the main hotel.

Kindly advise on the certification options and restrictions if it is intended to pursue single certification approach or is it mandated to pursue Multiple Buildings?

We selected the split review process and recently received Construction Preliminary Review comments. We are satisfied with the results of this review and would like to skip the Construction Final Review. The project timeline screen has an option button to 'skip review' under the Construction Final heading but we are relectant to select this option without first understanding the process. Thank you for any advice.

Hello everyone. We are just having our first LEED project in Pakistan. The client wants to have their building to be LEED certified. The building is starting into construction, and they have already casted their basement foundations onsite.

I want to know if upon registering the project into the LEED online with the project certification rates; is the project still eligible for the DESIGN REVIEW? or we need to go ahead with the CONSTRUCTION REVIEW since the building has already started the construction?

Thank you all in advance!

I have a 4 floor building in china, it’s a manufacturing facility. In short, they will construct the entire building (core and shell) but will not do the interior of floors 3 and 4 until “they feel the time is right”, they said 2-5 years. My problem is they are steadfast on obtaining New Construction certification. Is this possible? Or do you need full build out of building? How would I calculate FTE or do commissioning? Has anyone run into this problem before? many thanks!

I am working on a residential redevelopment in a mature inner suburb. Previously the site was a low density residential neighbourhood.

In the explanation of GIB c4 the Reference Guide notes that "projects with no new or existing landscape irrigation requirements automatically meet the credit requirements."

Previously the landscape of the project was mainly lawn and some trees (as would be typical of a low density suburb). We are proposing a slightly higher density of development, a mix of single detached houses and semi-detached townhouses.

At this point there is no way to know what the landscaping will be for the single detached lots (people can do with them whatever they want when they buy them). However we know the landscape will generally be similar to the pre-existing condition in terms of landscape irrigation requirements - a mix of trees and lawn. In fact, there will be less irrigation required as we have more hard surface. We will not be providing any irrigation infrastructure such as sprinklers in the public park or townhouses.

Am I correct in my understanding of the intent of the credit? The documentation requirements seem to want an imaginary baseline condition, rather than the pre-existing condition. We propose to use the pre-existing condition as the baseline. Is that a correct interpretation?

Thanks for the responses so far... Please keep them coming!

I have a question regarding building-height-to-street-width ratio. ND says that street width is measured facade to facade, but what if the development is not set up with buildings directly opposite on their respective streets?

My project is small, and includes three rows of houses; rows one and two are separated by both a street and a park. Measured facade to facade, this is likely to exceed the allowable distance. Can I exempt the park from this measurement? The third row of houses faces a street and then undeveloped land (a stand of trees between it and the next development), so there are no facades on the other side of the street to measure to... Can I just measure the width of the street plus the sidewalks?

Finally, rows two and three are separated by a walking path; I can use this path if it meets the required ratio of 1:1. However, both rows of houses back onto the path. Can I use back porch to back porch? Or does it have to be building frontage?

Thanks!