Fee for pre-certyfing a building

That really depends.... how big and complex is the building, what are the prevailing rates in your area, etc.I suspect that it will be tough to get an answer to this question in an open forum like this—people are discreet about sharing this info.

I agree, there are many variables that affect fee and many professional and legal reasons for people to decline from discussing this openly.

Still, just as summary information on the hard costs for specific LEED credits is very useful, general summaries of soft costs would also be helpful for owners, agencies, and design teams to use for budgeting, planning, and decision making. There are industry-wide rules of thumb for estimating construction costs, design fees, etc, in a given country or region based on years of historical data. With LEED being so young, this is difficult to assemble, but it appears the USGBC has been collecting data on soft costs incurred for documentation for a little while at least. Anyone know of any other attempts to aggregate soft cost data?

There's a related discussion under the topic of "man-hour" at http://www.leeduser.com/topic/man-hour that might offer a starting point for fee analysis.