I am working on a Core&Shell office building project. The owner has not yet found a tenant so we are preparing design documentation for LEED CS. I was wondering; what happens when the owners finds a tenant for 100% of the office gross floor area half way through the LEED certification process? Will this disqualify the project to continue with the CS rating system? Or can we still go for CS although a tenant is involved as well? I couldn't find clear guidance on this so I hope anyone knows how to deal with this situation.
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Christian Bösselmann
Senior Energy & Sustainability Consultanta°blue / atmosgrad GmbH
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October 22, 2015 - 4:56 am
HI Jeroen,
if you have registered the project you can to my knowledge change pretty much everything EXCEPT the rating schemes. The submittal forms differ between the schemes.
So I am afraid you would need to start all over again.
regarsd
Christian
Markus Henning
M.Eng Facility Management LEED AP BD+C | LEED GCPAlpha Immobilien Consulting GmbH
27 thumbs up
October 22, 2015 - 5:21 am
Hello Jeroen and Christian
"Will this disqualify the project to continue with the CS rating system? Or can we still go for CS although a tenant is involved as well?"
That depends on two things. 1st: has the owner control over the fit out of the tenant space or is this 100% in the hand of the tenant? And how is the contract with the construction company including tenant space or not?
You can change all data including the rating system of the project if you do not have submit any data for review, without additional cost. If the project pass any review (Pre-Cert …..) you can not change the rating system and a new registration will be necessary.
Hope that helps
Best regards
Markus
Katie Peterschmidt
Associate Director, CORE StewardCooper Carry
3 thumbs up
March 2, 2016 - 11:05 am
I concur with Markus. It really depends upon the contract. We had this happen on one of our projects. The tenant work was done by a separate contract, different design team and different construction contract. Therefore, it turned into two LEED projects: LEED CS for the base building and the tenant opted to pursue LEED CI at the same time.