We are working on a 10 building apartment complex, which consists of 9 Residential Buildings and a Community Building. The Community building is attempting LEED NC Silver, but the Residential facility is not.
My current plan is to have a set dumpsters (Waste, commingle, wood, and metal) for the LEED project area and a set for the residential area. Is there a better, or more cost effective, way to handle this? Has anyone run into a situation like this before?
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June 28, 2011 - 11:36 am
I recently had a schools (v2007) project where the main school building was seeking LEED certification but the athletic facility was not. Due to site constraints and logistics, it was impossible to set multiple rolloffs for each project. Using the cost of each project, we came up with a percentage for each project and multiplied the weights of each of the recycled and landfilled materials by this percentage to determine the LEED Site vs. non-LEED Site construction waste amounts. In our case, the majority of the waste was from the LEED Site where it seems like your situation is the opposite.
Note: On two co-located LEED-NC v2.0 projects, this strategy was successful as well. There is a LEED-NC v2.2 CIR (Ruling dated 8/25/2008 – now listed as ID # 2316 in the LEED Interpretations database) that we referenced as well. It states, “If the project team can devise and document a method that accurately assigns the waste from the two separate projects before combining, then this would be an acceptable compliance path.” According to the Applicable Rating Systems and Tools chart in the LEED Interpretation, this ruling was not yet considered for LEED-NC v2009 – although it has been used for v2009 for Schools, CS, and CI. It might be worth further investigation.