Clarification is requested regarding whether K-12 schools, hospitals, hotels, resorts, and resort properties may be submitted as a "single building" submittal for the purposes of LEED project certification.K-12 School projects, hospitals (General Medical and Surgical), hotels, resorts, and resort properties, as defined for ENERGY STAR building rating purposes, are eligible to include more than one physically distinct structure in a single LEED project certification application without having to utilize the Application Guidance for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects (AGMBC) in accordance with the following requirements:1. The buildings included in the LEED certification must be a part of the same identity. For example, the buildings are all part of the same elementary school and not a mix of elementary school and high school buildings together in the same certification.2. The project must be analyzed as a whole (i.e. in aggregate) for all Minimum Program Requirements (MPRs), prerequisites, and credits in the LEED rating system.3. The buildings included in the LEED certification must share a common site/campus that can meet the requirements of MPR 3 for defining a single, shared, and reasonable site boundary, as explained in the LEED 2009 MPR Supplemental Guidance.4. The submittal documentation for the certification of these projects must include all of the square footage for all of the buildings as well as all land area defined in the LEED project boundary.5. There is no specific limit on the number of building structures but the total aggregate square footage of gross floor area that can be included in a single project shall not exceed 1 million.6. Any single building structure in such a complex that is larger than 25,000 square feet must be registered as a separate project, or treated as a separate building in a group certification approach using the AGMBC. EXCEPTION: For LEED EBO&M group certification of K-12 schools, hospital (General Medical and Surgical), hotels, resorts, and resort properties projects with single building structures exceeding 25,000 square feet, a single Energy Star Rating may be used to document compliance with EA Prerequisite 2, and the AGMBC requirements for EA Prerequisite 2 do not apply. However, the AGMBC requirements do apply to building structures larger than 25,000 square feet for all other relevant credits and prerequisites described in the AGMBC.While these projects are also allowed to register and certify each structure as a separate building--where it individually meets the MPRs and other rating system eligibility criteria-- this LEED Interpretation allows them to be treated, for all intents and purposes, as a single building with one LEED project registration and one LEED project certification without having to utilize the group certification requirements of the AGMBC. Applicable internationally.