You and your boss don’t really collaborate. Neither do you and your employee, or you and your supplier.
You might work collaboratively, but ultimately one of you has power and authority over the other. Real, substantive collaboration—getting people to cooperate without power and authority—takes a lot of work, and so you only want to collaborate on challenges that need it.
Credit achievement is based on the cost of environmentally preferable purchases compared to the cost of total, ongoing consumables purchased. All consumables (environmentally preferable and not) must be tracked. Teams must track relevant purchases made by both the building management and tenants during the performance period.
The following ongoing consumable product categories must be tracked:
This credit offers the option to pursue a commissioning process or conduct an ASHRAE Level II audit. The LEED v4 credit is very similar to the LEED 2009 version of the credit.
Here we’ll address common questions that come up when pursuing this credit:
This credit focuses on achieving an appropriate number of condenser water cycles in a cooling tower based on the concentrations of various water quality criteria, such as dissolved solids.