We are going to build an office space (5000ft2) within an industrial plant and will renovate completely and existing office building attached tho the industrial plant. The office space will use one existing wall of the plant and also three other walls from previous offices, also the roof will be existing. All the inner spaces and so the concrete slabs, including the slab on grade will be demolished to include the proper new foundations. So basically the main shell is going to be maintained. The question arises because we are planning to certify the building as NC 2009 and we don't know how the ESC plan was executed when they first built the existing space. Is it valid to do a new ESC plan since we will have to do some earth work inside the envelope to dig the foundations of the new structure? Does the ESC plan will have to include some measurements about dust coming out of the demolition process? Thanks.
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Susann Geithner
PrincipalEmerald Built Environments
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February 28, 2011 - 10:59 am
The ESC Plan has to include any areas, which will be impacted by your scope of work of this project. So if you have areas, where building materials get stored, spaces for construction equipment or any such thing, when your plan has to include these areas.
Measures to prevent dust during the demolition phase will have to be included.
You would necessary use the old ESC plan, because it's a different scope of work now. But it might be helpful for the new ESC plan to know, what was done during the original construction.
javier bolanos zeledon
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February 28, 2011 - 11:13 am
Thanks Susann, the issue here is that I don't even now if there was an ESC plan for that construction, probably not. I've heard that if you are going to certify EBOM and the building didn't have an ESC plan you are not able to certify it. So my question is due to the fact that there will be some earth movement, demolition, etc. during this construction, if I follow an ESC plan I want to be sure that I will be able to certify it, even though previous development hadn't.
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Susann Geithner
PrincipalEmerald Built Environments
1297 thumbs up
February 28, 2011 - 11:43 am
I'm assuming that you have an existing building, which hasn't been build recently, right? (I ask that questions, because otherwise it might look like you are excluding that to get around the ESC Plan for the total building construction work.) If you are basically using this building and change it as well as add to the building and certify that scope according to LEED NC, then you would created a new ESC Plan for your scope of the project and that would be it.
I haven't heard of any requirement in regards to an ESC Plan for an existing building. Is the existing building certified LEED NC or LEED EBOM?
javier bolanos zeledon
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February 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
No the existing building is not certified,it is like 20-30 years old. It is and industrial plant with an office building attached to it. Basically we are major renovating the office building, which includes some earth movement, demolition, stock piling, trucks, etc. Of course the LEED boundary will not include the industrial plant so our ESC plan will be just for the areas we are going to touch.
Susann Geithner
PrincipalEmerald Built Environments
1297 thumbs up
February 28, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Yes. You would include only your scope of the project into the ESC plan, but be sure to include any areas, which are used for materials or equipment as well as preparations during the construction work. Also areas where you stock pill / store soil need to be included into your ESC Plan. Basically any areas, which gets in anyway used or disturbed by the your construction work. Also your areas has to include at a minimum your LEED project boundary.