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LEED Recertification: When and How

New Recertification Guidance!

Alicia Chu

Senior Project Manager

Healthy Buildings

LEEDuser Basic Member

9 thumbs up

July 20, 2012

New guidance for Existing Buildings recertification has been posted! You can find it here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=19201 This document is meant to replace all previously released temporary guidance, but it doesn't discuss what to do with credits not previously awarded in the initial certification.

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Barry Giles

Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM Fellow

BuildingWise LLC

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 07/20/2012 - 18:52

Any credits not previously awarded are treated like 'new'...i.e. 3 month performance data needed. (However during the recertification performance period...4 to 5 years, it would be nice if building operators were already taking data down to show that the building is advancing over the whole performance rather than just the last 3 months)

Chris Munn

Director, National Operations

Chelsea Group, Ltd.

LEEDuser Basic Member

90 thumbs up

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 19:09

Hooray! This guidance has been long awaited. I'm very excited to see we finally have a clear document to reference in our Certification maintenance. Thanks to all who contributed to this document.

Alicia Chu

Senior Project Manager

Healthy Buildings

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Sat, 07/21/2012 - 14:13

Barry - Thank you for your response! I assumed that was the case. The guidance also defines recertification as any "Subsequent application(s) to the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operation Maintenance program after receiving an initial LEED for Existing Buildings certification under any version." Does this mean we can now recertify buildings that were previously certified under LEED EB 2.0? The previous guidance specifically stated that this would not qualify for recertification.

Barry Giles

Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM Fellow

BuildingWise LLC

LEEDuser Expert

224 thumbs up

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 15:11

Any version of EB, even back to pilots can now re-certify with these guidelines provided that they satisfy the 5 year rule. Good luck

Alicia Chu

Senior Project Manager

Healthy Buildings

LEEDuser Basic Member

9 thumbs up

Sat, 07/21/2012 - 20:06

I have to say, I am very glad that the USGBC really kept the owner's best interest in mind with these guidelines!

Margaret Sonoda

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Tue, 09/18/2012 - 22:51

The recertification guidelines "temporary" or otherwise have apparently been removed from the website. When you go to the link posted here a message pops up that says "Stay Tuned! Guidelines available September 2012" I've searched and searched and can't find recertification guidelines anywhere and submitted an email inquiry today to GBCI asking when they expect to post the guidelines. We've registered our LEED EB Gold corporate headquarters for recertification but it's all pretty confusing at this point.

Alexis Voeltner

Sustainability Project Manager

UL Solutions

LEEDuser Expert

11 thumbs up

Wed, 11/14/2012 - 23:03

LEED EBO&M Recertification Guidance as of 11/07/2012 https://new.usgbc.org/resources/leed-existing-buildings-operations-amp-maintenance-recertification-guidance Cheers!