We have a project to be registered in LEED NC for hotels. The project consists of several towers and some units of chalets. Each group of towers will be executed in distinct phases, will be 3 phases, 3 stages of construction. Can the entire project be in a single process, independent of the phases, or does each phase need to be a separate (individual) process?
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emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
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June 28, 2018 - 9:24 pm
Hi Larissa,
I think I understand your question, and I believe you can do either approach. You can submit the hotel project as one big project. If you do this, you will need to take great care to carefully organize and document everything through each phase. For some credits, you'll be able to upload 3 separate things to show compliance; for others, you may need to wait until the end and do an overall combination of the information.
If it makes sense for your project to separate the phases as individual projects (perhaps if you have separate design teams, separate contractors, or if the project is spread out over many years), you may want to do that, instead. You would then have 3 separately registered LEED websites, and everything would be handled individually. I have found that when projects take many years to complete from start to finish, that documentation can get complicated, as the LEED requirements shift and sometimes change altogether over the years. So, items that you document early on may need to be re-documented by the time you're ready to submit if the requirements have been updated.