I think group certification would be a good option for my two identical (mirrored) buildings on the same property with the same owner. Can I register one now, then wait till group registration is available on LEED Online, and then add the other building in a few months time? Or get a voucher to reregister? I can’t find the difference in cost to register and certify as two individual projects or as a group including two buildings. Where do I find that information? (Customer wants to know). Thank you!

I don't really have a question at this point. We have completed our project and submitted the paperwork; however, I would like to voice my frustration over the water calculation tool. I feel that the prescriptive path and performance are two very different things. The water demands spelled out by the water calculator are far from our experience after living in the house for a year and a half now. We have used far less water than the calculator specified. In fact after the first two weeks of establishment, we have never watered our drought-tolerant, native plants and shrubs, and they are thriving. We live in drought-ridden Georgia, so the rainwater has not been plentiful, yet the landscape is doing just fine. I feel like we should have gotten more credit for our landscape choices than the water calculator has deemed. Is there anything we can do to make things more performance based?

I am working on a hotel project which comprises a few buildings (main building + some small buildings, all contain guest rooms). The project is under 1 phase and will be run by 1 operator. Can the project be qualified under LEED NC? Or we have to register using AGMBC?

If we have to register under AGMBC, where I can find guidelines in application fee?

Thank you.

i have a client who is intrested in LEED home for his Signle Family development, about 300 signle family home, in Saudi Arabia any experiance, to share...

We have a hotel project that is 23 stories and was started and registered as a LEED NCv2.2 project in 2008. The design phase submittal was completed for the project and then at that time the owner placed the project on hold. The project was shelved for about a year with only the exterior of the project completed. During that time, the first floor was completed as suites (villas) and were not necessarily done to LEED standards. The remainder of the 23 stories is now being completed and we are preparing to submit for construction phase submittal. The question is how to handle the villas. Techincally, they should be excluded from the LEED boundary, but how do you do this if they were included during the design phase submittal and is USGBC/ GBCI going to allow a complete floor to be excluded from the project? If anyone has any information on a similar situation it woudl be appreciated. Thanks.

I am working on a project where two buildings directly adjacent to each other but separated by 10-20 feet are being designed to be connected by an underground tunnel. At the surface these buildings will also be connected by a stairway between them. We would like to be able to certify these two structures together as one building- does that seem like a reasonable approach? The other twist is that the buildings may be built in phases- one building one summer and the second building the second summer. I assume if we can treat the buildings and certify them as one this would only affect the timing of the construction phase submittals (that is, we would have to wait for the second building to be completed to submit). Does this sound on track? Feedback is much appreciated.

Questionnaire:
1.What are the main drivers for choosing LEED certification system?
2.Have these expectations been met?
3.Did you set any measurable evaluation criteria for meeting these expectations? What are they?
4.What are the improvement areas in certification process?
5.Are there any reports created from the output of measurements? If yes, is it possible for you to share the reports with me?

Hi everyone:

I'm working in a CS project, and I've been filling table PIf 3-1: Space Usage Type. In this project, offices are for sale, and therefore I'm not sure if the tenant spaces should be considered for lease or not. From what I take, a lease is a rental contract, but I'm not sure if selling the space can also be considered a lease.

So, in the "Owned or leased" column I've been selecting owned for every space (since offices will be owned by the buyers), but I have started to think that LEED places this column in order to understand which areas will be tenant owned (and therefore not in the CS scope?), and which areas will be general building areas (lobby, halls, technical rooms, etc...). So know I'm really confused about how to deal with this column. Any Ideas?

On the other hand, should I include tenant areas in the CS project scope?

I would really appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you!

Hello Brian,

Prior to this change, there was one policy for LEED 2009 projects and another for everyone else, despite project fees remaining the same. This change eliminates that discrepancy. Now every project receives the same recognition package.

Additionally, this change will allow GBCI to further invest in enhancing the quality and speed of the certification review process for all customers.

Erin Emery
U.S. Green Building Council

A bit of a twist from most of the queries above, this deals with a single building already registered as such (NC) but which is on a multi-building campus of existing buildings. Since we have to apply aspects of the campus site to this one building, we're thinking it may make more sense to go with the AGMBC approach rather than "gerrymander" the LEED boundary. The question is three-fold: Should we change the registration for this single NC building project from individually registered to MB/C registered, especially since the owner may decide later to certify via EBOM the other buildings on this campus? Can we? Secondly, do we have to register this as a new project with the same info as for the single building registration but check the box saying we're using the MB/C approach--calling it a Block--and then add the previously registered (and paid) single building to that block? If so, how does the fee work?