Is this a pause or rewrite?

Bill Swanson

Sr. Electrical Engineer

Integrated Design Solutions

LEEDuser Expert

516 thumbs up

June 5, 2012

Wow, Rob's still got influence. He even got them to change the name to v4. v1.0; v2.0, v2.1, v2.2; v2009; v4. It just seems like one of these is not like the others. Code books are usually 98% the same from cycle to cycle, so having a new cycle every 3 years works. With LEED being about 20% the same from v2009 to v4 it doesn't seem like there was enough time for people to digest the impact it would have. I wonder how many changes will be made before the next Public Comment in October. Are they starting over or still doing small tweaks based on comments from this last Public Comment that just ended? Is this just a 'pause' or a 'rewrite'?

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Hernando Miranda

Owner

Soltierra LLC

LEEDuser Basic Member

231 thumbs up

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 15:50

Years ago I disagreed with Rob Watson about the usability of LEED. The "It isn't LEED unless you prove it to us" mentality that has been the mantra of LEED reviews since the beginning. Mr. Watson was not an actual user of LEED at the time. Now he is. Now he understands what I have known for more than 10 years. What LEED needs is a total revamp of the review process. How about a process where review team actually help teams get a project certified rather than telling them they failed to read the latest new, and unpublished, review rule? Wishful thinking.