LEED Project boundary

Neetika Parmar

Senior Engineer-Sustainable Development

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Project location :

United Arab Emirates

February 9, 2017

Our Project is an Office cum warehouse. The area distribution is: Office- air conditioned with an area of 4 000 sq.ft (G+1) Warehouse- non air conditioned with an area of 84 400 sq.ft (Ground floor only) The two are joined together with a wall on one side. The customer however wants only the office to be LEED Certified Is it possible to include just the Office Block for Certification. If so can the LEED boundary be considered just around the Office block and not the entire plot or do we need to consider the entire plot as LEED boundary, having the option to exclude warehouse. If we can exclude the warehouse from the LEED boundary, for the energy modelling exercise do we consider the warehouse or just the office?

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

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Fri, 07/07/2017 - 20:47

Are the utilities and plumbing shared or separate?If they are separate it is more feasible to exclude the warehouse.

Priscilla Eisner

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Thu, 05/31/2018 - 21:11

Hello Tristan, Neetika, I am facing a very similar situation with a facility storage. I am extremely confused by the answer above: "Are the utilities and plumbing shared or separate?" I don't understand, I thought we were supposed to submit the building as a whole, not partial? Thank you, Priscilla

Nadav Malin

CEO

Green Commons, LLC

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Tue, 06/12/2018 - 17:37

Hi Priscilla, Generally, you're right--you are supposed to submit the building as a whole. In some circumstances, however, you can make the case that two parts of a building are actually different projects and that it's reasonable to pursue LEED on just one part. One of the key factors that plays into that is whether the mechanical systems are shared by both parts. If they're shared, you'll have to consider the building as a whole. If not, you may be able to get them considered separately--thought it's still best to get GBCI signoff on that before going too far down that path. I hope this is helpful!