The LEED Reference Guide states "If a project team wishes to pursue additional credits or thresholds beyond the construction scope of the LEED project, a binding tenant sales and lease agreement must be provided as documentation. This must be signed by the future tenant and include terms related to how the technical credit requirements will be carried out by the tenant. An unsigned or sample lease agreement is not acceptable".
This seems very unfair. This could delay LEED certification (where Gold or Platinum is sought) because you would need to use baseline parameters until a Tenant is in place which could be months after practical completion. This effects how we market the building to get a tenant in the first place.
What is other peoples opinions on this ?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
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January 9, 2018 - 6:08 pm
Maybe the unsigned/blank lease agreements were not being honored? IMO any requirement based on just having to say that you are going to do something in the future is very unreliable. Most people have good intentions but once the certification is awarded almost no one wants to do anything else associated with it in my experience.
Max Zayika
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January 25, 2018 - 6:45 am
I wonder if the lease agreements have to be signed for ALL the tenanted spaces of the CS project to get full credit? It does not seem practical, though, as it's very difficult to have a full building leased by the end of construction
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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January 25, 2018 - 11:14 am
That is the way I read it. This will obviously delay certifications that are trying to claim credit for tenant related savings.