NC Boundary - campus control

Phillip Cook

WGE

LEEDuser Basic Member

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May 2, 2014

I am working on a building on a hospital campus. The Site Boundary over which the charity building owner has a lease includes an area (about 1/5 of the total site area) that is to be landscaped by the hospital campus i.e. we will just leave this area empty at the end of construction and the hospital will complete landscaping at some stage. This means that we do not have any details on what the landscaping design will be (although the masterplan indicates that the site will be landscaped with local native plants). Can I exclude the section that will be landscaped by the campus but ultimately within the boundary of area we have a lease over? Or do I have to wait / push a 3rd party to provide suitable documentation showing he landscape design of this space. This obviously impacts the irrigation credit and the site selection credits.

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Susan Walter

HDR

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 05/02/2014 - 14:49

I think you need to include it if you are leasing it and your construction disturbs it. Just leaving it empty and waiting for someone else to do something doesn't align with environmentally positive construction practices. Since the hospital will use native plantings eventually, they must have some sensitivity to LEED. I would reach out to the hospital or other project team and find a way to get this done.

Phillip Cook

WGE

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Mon, 05/05/2014 - 03:17

Thanks Susan. I do agree - I will talk to the hospital - I think the main issue will be with timing - i.e. they wont do the design until we are nearly finished construction and then they will do their design. This will mean that we wont be able to submit for a Design Review (or will have to wait until construction is nearly finished to do it).