How about a SI / IP version? A Spanish one?

Ricardo Sobral

Technical Services Director

Lend Lease (AR) S.A.

LEEDuser Basic Member

56 thumbs up

September 11, 2011

Here's a suggestion for the nice people at USGB / GBCI: for international projects using the SI system (International System of Units- metric system), it would be great to have LEED Reference Guide version using SI, as ASHRAE does. That would be a great help for both contractors and consultants. A step beyond that would be to have this version translated into Spanish. That would accelerate the use of LEED in Spanish-speaking countries. Adios!

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Nadav Malin

CEO

Green Commons, LLC

LEEDuser Expert

586 thumbs up

Mon, 09/12/2011 - 19:00

Hi Andres,Good news here! An international version not just of the Reference Guide, but of the entire LEED Rating System, is in the works. I'm not sure how useful it would be to have an SI Reference Guide while the LEED-Online forms are still US-centric. Do you think that would be worthwhile?

Ricardo Sobral

Technical Services Director

Lend Lease (AR) S.A.

LEEDuser Basic Member

56 thumbs up

Mon, 09/12/2011 - 19:39

Great news! I wonder when this International is going to be finished. About the SI issue, yes you are right about the LEED-Online forms but, to my knowledge, in many Latin American countries most of the forms are filled in off-line, and then the LEED-AP or team administrator fills them online, since most contractors and consultants are not familiar with English, let alone IP system.

Mike Barker

Principal : Energy / Electrical Engineer

BuildingPhysics South Africa

LEEDuser Basic Member

94 thumbs up

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 14:45

SI units would be a time saver. At the moment we run our energy models twice, using SI units because it's easy for us to input the data and we understand what we are seeing, and then we convert it all for a final run in Imperial for submission to LEED.. One hopes that LEED Online would do all the conversions necessary ? It seems thay are going that way ?