This credit offers two major compliance options.
Depending on your site lighting plan, this credit can be easier to achieve with the calculation method, which allows light trespass to the center of the street under certain conditions. Technologies to reduce light pollution and achieve this compliance option include full cutoff luminaries, low-reflectance surfaces, and low-angle spotlights.
This credit offers two major compliance options.
Depending on your site lighting plan, this credit can be easier to achieve with the calculation method, which allows light trespass to the center of the street under certain conditions. Technologies to reduce light pollution and achieve this compliance option include full cutoff luminaries, low-reflectance surfaces, and low-angle spotlights.
This credit offers several different compliance paths to choose from, making it a very achievable credit for most projects. It’s common for teams to pursue the reflective materials option for roof and/or hardscape. Providing parking undercover is another popular option that’s highly achievable for projects that include a parking garage.
Teams also have the option to retain existing shade trees and plant new trees to shade paved areas onsite. Vegetated roofs contribute to this credit as well, if they use native or adapted plant species.
This credit offers several different compliance paths to choose from, making it a very achievable credit for most projects. It’s common for teams to pursue the reflective materials option for roof and/or hardscape. Providing parking undercover is another popular option that’s highly achievable for projects that include a parking garage.
Teams also have the option to retain existing shade trees and plant new trees to shade paved areas onsite. Vegetated roofs contribute to this credit as well.
This prerequisite encourages teams to incorporate LEED goals and strategies into the design from the outset of the project. Teams should create the Owner Project Requirements (OPR) for the project early in the project timeline. This document will outline the “triple bottom line” goals and values the project is aiming to achieve.
It’s standard practice for most new buildings to install whole-building potable water metering, which satisfies this prerequisite. Those projects simply need to record meter readings monthly, compile water use summaries, and commit to sharing water use data with USGBC for five years in order to meet the remaining requirements of this prerequisite.
It’s standard practice for most new buildings to install whole-building potable water metering, which satisfies this prerequisite. Those projects simply need to record meter readings monthly, compile water use summaries, and commit to sharing water use data with USGBC for five years in order to meet the remaining requirements of this prerequisite.
This credit is a combination of stormwater quality control and quantity control. There’s even a pathway for zero-lot-line urban projects.
Executing this credit may be expensive, but it can also be economical; it varies greatly depending on site, soil, and project. Additionally, teams should take some time to better understand the historical conditions of the site; this is important as you’ll need to use low-impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI) strategies that mimic the site’s natural pre-development hydrology.
This credit is a combination of stormwater quality control and quantity control, and includes site-specific criteria for more frequent, low-intensity storm events. There’s even a pathway for zero-lot-line urban projects.
Complying with this prerequisite is standard practice in most urban and suburban areas in the U.S., where most or all of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Construction General Permit (CGP) requirements have been adopted and implemented at the state or county level. Regulators at those levels often threaten heavy fines for not complying with CGP requirements, so most projects do so without the added incentive of the LEED prerequisite. Just remember to check for CGP versions, as LEED v4.1 references the 2017 CGP.