Hi all,
We are working on a call-center office building. The employees will be working 7 days a week. with 3 shifts a day. We have a confusion with calculating the FTE. First we have a problem of the multi-shift overlap, how can it be calculated. Second, we have a problem for the employees not spending 40 hours per week as indicated in the definition of the FTE. Shall the 2 working days be considered as overtime occupants?
Awaiting you help.

What do you do when you want to upload a response to review comments but the credit or PI form does not require any uploads thereby not providing an area to upload the response to review comments? The credit or PI form does not have a space to type in a response or direct reviewer to another credit where you've uploaded your response.

We have received review comments on MR4 that indicate the review team misread or mistyped something. For example, we have a recycled content rate just over 10% (we cut it close), and we have 45% of the spreadsheets uploaded. Our review comments state we achieved a 45% recycled content rate.
Is it necessary to point this out? I don't want to give them a reason to re-review and scrutinize the credit, but it seems strange to not clarify the situation. Has anyone else encountered this?

We've had some changes to our site plan since the Preliminary Review and are currently submitting for the Design Final Application. I am updating the site plan in the PIf4, does anyone know if I need to update the water efficiency landscaping WEc1 (which was anticipated) or will it automatically be updated since I have selected to use the site plan from PIf4? Basically, it had been marked anticipated and nothing has changed other than the site plan, do i need to update the WEc1 form? Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I have registered 4 buildings separately under a Block. I would like to share credits. The Owner wants to know if the individual projects will lose the certification if the property is subdivided and sold?

1.) If this is the case, I had better not register as a ‘Group’ - right?

2.) Master Project is the "tool" I can use to save time and get the projects within the Block to coordinate; otherwise, just leaving it in the "Block stage" will not benefit me - right?

3.) Master Site - this is used to create a Group rather than a Campus (individual buildings within the same site and ownership, etc.), which would make the site certified instead of buildings - right?

4.) If the owner subdivides the property after certification, will the 4 buildings lose their certification?

5.) What about when they go to recertify? It is my understanding that just the prerequisites that have to be "proven" again-right?

6.) What is the difference between a Master Site and Block - benefits? With my situation of a potential property division and sale, which way do I go? Campus-right? Master Site registration doesn’t limit/hurt me – does it?

7.) One of the 4 buildings has a Data Center in 1/3 of it that is not separately metered - problem for Energy Star, as the Data must be separately metered from the rest of that building - right?

6.) The State of CA is considering removing the Data Center in a few months but won't commit either way -they just want the 4 buildings LEED EBOM by 2013. I cannot get an Energy Star rating without a meter so do I tell the owner to put one in, in the hopes they keep the Data Center or not register at all until the State decides what to do? As the parking lot, etc. is a shared space the rest of the buildings will have to wait until I put a meter in and wait another 12 months – right? At that time, I won't need it metered separately, so putting in a data meter will be a waste of time and money - right?

Thanks for your help!

I wanted to double check if anyone knows that a new green roof qualifies as a "landscaped area" for the LEED for Homes Credits SS2.5 and WE 2.3.

If we are adding an extensive green roof without irrigation, I'm assuming we would get the credit for not using irrigation, according to the LEED for Homes Water Demand Calculator. There are no other landscaped areas on site.

Does anyone have experience submitting LEED for Homes Water Demand Calculator for a new green roof? Is there anything I'm missing?

i probably know the answer already, but i just want to test my understanding:

we are in the process of registering a manufacturing plant (BD+C), which consists of an office building and a manufacturing component, which in itself consists of a number of functional spaces/buildings, which are not all physically linked (as a consequence of the manufacturing process).

the intention is to register the project under the AGMBC system, with - at a minimum - the office and plant as two distinct projects within the campus boundary.

given, however, the nature of the manufacturing section of the plant, should we register the functional spaces (buildings) in a group (once available) or could we possibly make a case for grouping functional space areas under plausible space use headings, such as warehouse, processing etc and register these as single buildings?

we have reviewed the supplemental guidance to MPR#2 - Defining 'one building' (rev.#2) - but even this remains slightly vague!

many thanks in advance!

Can anyone clarify if the column "Regularly Occupied Area" should correlate with "Regularly Occupied Spaces" as defined in EQc8: Views and Daylighting or should it be all occupy able space?

Hello. Our project is registered under NC 2009 for a split review. We are ready to submit for the Design Review. However due to a series of delays in documenting the LEED design credits, the building is now complete and occupied. I understand we are supposed to submit design phase credits before substantial completion. As this is no longer possible, can anyone tell me what our options are now? Thanks.

Hello,

I've ready pretty much everything that is available on AGMBC - the guide itself, forunm, FAQs - but there's so much gray area! I've also called GBCI and most times they just say they "can't answer the question, I have to contact GBCI over email", and the answer never arrives and my cliente is pressuring me. So I will break down my doubts into a few questions. This is A LEED NC Project.

1st. Question
We have a campus with 5 buildings, it's an industrial plant. I've registered the 5 buildings + master site within a block, believing that I was doing the registration for a group that would receive a single certification. But appearently, LEED Online is not yet offering this option, but will be sometime within the 1st quarter of 2012, is that right? If this answer to this question is a Yes, should we wait for this capability to come out in LEED Online, and somehow turn the registration (is that even possible?) into a Group Project that will receive one single certification?

2nd. Question
Another crucial question is: There's "1.4 Table 1A" (AGMBC, Part I, p.14 https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=7987) and "Table 1. AGMBC Applicability for credits and prerequisites in LEED 2009 Design & Construction rating Systems" (AGMBC, Part II, p.3 https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=10484). But they diverge in the list of campus credits! For instance: Table 1A (Part I) doesn't list SSc2, SSc3, SSc41, SS8, and EAc2 as elegible to submit as a campus credit, but Table 1 (Part II) does. Which tabel should I consider?

3rd.
In the end, can I count on the campus credits to streamline our documentation right now or not? Is LEED Online ready for it now or it will only come along with the full capability for group credits?

I greatly appreciate any comments on any of those issues!