For an existing multi-tenant office building, how is this credit applied? Will it be necessary to gain agreement, track and report purchasing for all tenants in the building, or only for the core and shell building management portion of the building? The applicant is the building owner/manager.
Applicants are required to address all tenant spaces for all performance period building management and operational purchases in the building as they pertain to LEED-EB. This includes both sustainable and non-sustainable tenant alternative material purchases under MRc2. If tenants control some aspect of purchasing products in any of the categories relevant to this credit, the preferred approach is to acquire purchasing data from them and incorporate it into the calculations. If tenant purchasing information is not available, LEED-EBv2.0 allows an alternative approach that allows building applicant to still pursue MRc2 by assuming that all tenant purchases are non-compliant through the following methodology: 1. Calculate purchase rate of MRc2 products on floor area basis for the Applicant controlled building space Purchases [$ per SF] = (APPLICANT MRc2 product purchases [$] / APPLICANT floor space [SF]) 2. Use purchase rate from Step 1 to project purchase rate [$] in TENANT spaces Projected TENANT MRc2 products purchases [$] = (Purchases [$ per SF] * TENANT floor space [SF]) 3. Inclusion of project purchases in Step 2 in calculating the percent of compliant purchases for the whole building (With Inclusion of Non-Compliant Tenant MRc2.1-2.5 product purchases) APPLICANT MRc2 compliant purchases (%) = ((APPLICANT Compliant MRc2 product purchases ($)) / (APPLICANT total MRc2 products purchases ($) + Projected TENANT MRc2 products purchases ($))) Applicable Internationally.