more buildings in a campus

Our projects similar to this seem to serve the owner best if the property is designated as a Master Site and then each building is individually certified in the order they are built.  The Master Site prerequisites and credits are "anticipated" at the completion of that submission and "awarded" when applied building by building.  In LEED Online there is a dropdown...shows as Project Credit...but can be changed to MS with LEED ID number when Master Site is registered.  We also have learned that submitting building by building we can often use the first building design submittal to improve sustainable design for the subsequent buildings. There is also early gratification when the first building is not only completed but LEED certified!   Hope this helps.

If it helps in your decision-making, there are two program offerings under the ND Plan rating system: a Letter of Support (LOS), and a Cetified Plan. A project may obtain a LOS in cases where a full plan has not yet been prepared and locally approved. The intent is to help the developer obtain local approval by demonstrating the project's consistency with ND standards using a conceptual plan that is not fully detailed. Accordingly, the documentation requirements for a LOS submission are less than those of a Certified Plan submission. To earn a LOS, a green building prerequisite requires a commitment to LEED certifying at least one building in the future; and points may be earned under the companion credit with a commitment to certify additional future buildings.

Once a project is fully planned and locally approved it can optionally return for the Certified Plan offering. The Certified Plan designation lasts as long as the project's development process, and once the project is completed the developer may optionally return for an ND Built Project certification.

To compare registration fees and estimate submission preparation costs for different rating systems, you should obtain current fees from GBCI, and review Reference Guide documentation requirements for the rating systems. Note that ND fees are based on project land area rather than buildings.

Eliot

Hi, 

I have a project consist of multiple buldings, It's a greenfield socity with mixed multiple projects residentail units, offices, hospital, commercial, retial etc. like a community owned by single developer. Can you please assisst on the following questions with your expertise. Will be glad if you find time and answer. Client first would lilke to certify the whole facility/Master Site and later will go into individual project certifications phasewise. 

1) I have two options LEED Campus and LEED for cities/communities. Which option is practical. As i checked on USGBC data base there are only 45 projects registered in LEED Communities Plan Design V4.1 and no one is certified yet. LEEDONLINE also don't have credit list for LEED communities plan design V4.1 only registration option is available with note that they will contact to the project administrators later.  

2) How i can check total number of projects certified or registered in Campus catagory bcz there is no option for this catagory to filter it on USGBC website. Would like to see the total number of Campus proejcts on USGBC database. 

3) If we go in LEED Campus catagory then how we can market it for branding like LEED Campus certified project or LEED Approved Master Site or LEED certified Master Site to get benefit for whole faciltiy. As per USGBC guidlines no master site can be certified then what will be the branding name. 

4) In both cataogroies individual proejects will be certified seperatelly as a single, volume, group etc approach. But which option  (Campus/cities/communities) will give us more benefit for indivail project certification later and what will be the benefits. 

Muzammal, I can't speak to your LEED Campus or Communities questions, but another option might be LEED Neighborhood Development, which has registered and certified hundreds of projects globally since the program's inception with v2009. The ability to obtain an initial Letter of Support for a conceptual master plan, and then phased Plan and Built certifications as planning and construction occurs over time may be advantageous.

Eliot

We currently have two buildings seeking individual certification.  Let's call them Building A, B and C. Building A is going for LEED Silver, while Building C is going for LEED Certified. Both are separated and also connected by Building B (non-certifying building). All three buildings are owned by same entity, and connected via a pedestrian bridge. Building A houses all the parking, offices, canteen facilities. Should we register the project under campus? and can Building C still get the parking credits, although they are in a different building?