Does anyone know where to find the Agency Relationship form?

My project is a Mixed-Use development. It consists of 3 residential condominium towers erecting on a single podium building, which will function as a mall.

Currently this project is registered in LEED 2009 New Construction. However, during the middle of design stage, the owner decided to construct it into different phases: Phase 1, Podium Building; Phase 2, Tower 1; Phase 3, Tower 2; and Phase 4, Tower 3. Each tower varies in height but the average is 35 floors (counted from g/f of podium). The owner's intent is to make the Mall (Podium) operational even while the towers are still under construction.

In relation to the abovementioned project's new direction, do you think it is possible to consider a "transfer/change" of registration? Meaning, from the current LEED registration status i.e., LEED 2009 NC will be changed into Multiple Building / On-Campus. What certification strategy would best fit for the given project description? What are the cost implication for transfer/change of registration (from NC to Multiple Building NC)?

Yes, here.

I have two questions regarding this form for schools. I have a k-12 school. In the "Space Usage Type" - should each part of the school (ie, the elementary wing, high school wing, office, cafetorium, etc.) be listed separately with the corresponding sq. ft.

Second, the days of operation are confusing me. There is a small staff at the school year round, but the students (majority of occupants) are only there during the school year. Which do I use?

So far, these forms are still generic and the changes I do see in them I am anticipating seeing in the newer versions of LEED. The balloted version of LEED HC is more helpful to me in determining whether to change our healthcare projects from LEED NC to LEED HC.

I would like to see discussion on campus projects for hospitals. These buildings are built differently than other campus projects but the campus guideline provides little to clear up boundaries through existing buildings. For example, the lower floors become very large and what started as one building can become absorbed by a second building to the extent that the original building line is obliterated. How do you define a building then? Smoke compartment? Original footprint? Mechanical zones? By departments? To date, we've been very conservative and have been walking away from the Building Reuse credits because we could not document that the building we're adding onto is a subsection of the larger hospital entitiy of 10 more buildings all smooshed together because we could not define these lower floors well enough.

Another issue is the portion in PI form 1, number 4 that comes from the current LEED NC MPR1, that no given parcel of property within the LPB will ever be attributed to another LEED project building. What happens when you build the next addition smack up against the current project? Or if you're doing a lot of site work to prep for a multiple building additions and you're forced to count the site work in the first project due to MPR 3 sub item 1, where all contiguous land that was or will be disturbed for the LEED prject must be counted? Assuming that you don't use a campus approach, does this mean a free standing building that is 50,000 s.f. or more not eligible to be LEED? What do you do when your local government requires all buildings over 50,000 s.f. to be LEED certified? (For the record, I do think that the USGBC will clear that up but right now it is a loop hole.)

I am having trouble with the transient numbers here. Our average transient number is 295 per day, while the peak transient number is 46 at the peak time. I assume I need to change the average transient number to a per hour value to satisfy the table requirement ("peak occupancy greater than or equal to average"). Is this correct for this table?

The confusion is that when this relates to other credits. For SSc4.2 - it makes sense to use the 46 peak time transients during the peak period to determine the number of bike racks. For WEp1, we have the option to use either an FTE or total daily occupancy. But if I enter 295 for the total daily occupancy in the table for PIf3 (to stay consistent), it doesn't satisfy the formula.

So can anybody confirm that the Transient Values should be an FTE value and not a daily value?

Also, what does the asterisks next to the "Typical Peak" title (under the "Average/Peak Text" column) refer to?

Robert, we have a good thread going on rating system selection questions. Can you post your question there?

I'm working on a boarding school classroom building. We have 535 students, but they'll spend a maximum of 2 hours/day in the building. The form seems to assume a traditional school building, where all students stay there all day. Should I consider students "transients" and leave the student box blank for greater accuracy?

I checked in on my submitted hours and was pleased with the pre-approval process. The GCBI confirmed that they are retroactively reviewing hours and mine were completed less than a week after the announcement about pre-approval.

One note: I'm currently communicating with the GBCI on some of the LEED-Specific hours from Greenbuild 2010 (listed at http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/files/GBCI-Specific-Sessions.pdf). Live presentations are not eligible for LEED-Specific hours as noted in the CMP guide and by the pre-approval review of my submitted hours; however, there were sessions listed as approved for LEED-Specific hours at Greenbuild. I'll post a follow-up comment with the resolution on this.

Maria, is it possible they are talking about the LEED Online forms for documenting each credit? (Referring to as letter templates in older versions of LEED.)