Airport Terminal Building - Rating System Adaption

Project teams have a lot of latitude to choose the most appropriate rating system. Given the commercial activity in a terminal, I could see Retail making sense. I would recommend reviewing the respective systems and seeing where the opportunities and obstacles lie, and making your choice based on that.

Terminal to me is the main building with the airport ticket counters, luggage handling, security - I'm not familiar with Retail specifically, but unless this was a building dominated by shopping outlets it might not be my first guess. Follow Tristan's advice and run through the checklist for "regular" and Retail and see which points you would qualify for, which aren't fits, etc. and go from there. Concourses might be higher percentage retail outlets and then with the gates that would be pretty sparse in terms of material.  

Hi Konstantina,  From our experience with airport projects, LEED BD+C: New Construction is the most common rating system used for Airports / Terminals projects. Although Terminals include retail areas, I believe BD+C is more relevant to large, multi-use projects.

For information you can see the rating systems used by LEED-certified Airport projects here: http://www.gbig.org/collections/15144 Hope it helps.