Basic Services

A project can count only two restaurants toward the ten services.

Andrew, I think you'll find this discussion on the NC forum for this credit quite helpful.What services did you have in mind?

There is a specific exception allowing two restaurants to be counted.Coffee sounds like too similar to restaurant to me.I doubt that a "mall" could be considered a service but perhaps some of the stores if they qualify.I think you may be able to get some traction with these but I would be a bit concerned about the consumer focus. Many of the basic services listed in the credit language are just that—key services needed for life. I haven't seen this articulated as a requirement—just a thought in terms of what you choose to submit with.

USGBC recently clarified that three restaurants can be counted for LEED-CI.

JIm, that's very interesting. Where did this clarification appear?

This is now twenty months old, so does that mean that the three restaurant option was never verified? My early copy of the LEED-CI reference guide clearly indicates two.

Hi Brian - I have never heard of the clarification allowing more than 2 restaurants to count and a quick search of the interpretation and addendum database turns up nothing. Hopefully Jim can show us where he saw this clarification?

I know this thread is old but seems an appropriate to my question. In the LEED - CI reference guide the example they give lists one dental office and one medical office (but they also list 12 basic services). If you have just ten services can one be a dental office and one a medical one, though those two are listed as a single item on the credit criteria?

I have never noticed that before - good catch! However, the examples of basic services that they outline in the requirements section clearly states medical or dental office, so my guess is that you can only use one or the other to get to 10.

I know I'm answering an old post, but believe it or not it's one or the other with regards to medical and dental. I've tried to get this reconsidered by high ranking folks at GBCI to no avail. I guess it's OK to have your appendix taken out by a dentist...