Compare the various available renewable energy technologies for cost, capacity, and project goals. 

Consider creating other forms of documentation that could aid operations staff in doing their jobs effectively. For example, videotape the start-up procedures of mechanical equipment to use as a training tool for new personnel.

If your building does not use in-house staff to maintain mechanical equipment, make contracted vendors aware of your current plans and allow them to have input into changes. Building staff who deal with vendor relationships should be responsible for distributing operational plans and communicating changes.

You may have documentation of existing operating procedures, but there’s no guarantee that the existing documentation reflects actual practice. Gather feedback and input from all relevant personnel to capture information that may better codify or improve proper building operations as well as informing the submittal documents. You may find unwritten rules—“that’s just how we’ve always done things”—that have a big impact (good or bad) on building performance.

Closely follow the LEED Reference Guide’s requirements for these documents. The Reference Guide does a good job of explaining the requirements and providing format examples.

You’ll need to organize the following documents for this prerequisite, before the performance period. Start by collecting  information on standard procedures used to operate and maintain building HVAC, lighting, and control systems.

If the Phase II ESA reports that the site is contaminated, then you must remediate the contamination. Remediation efforts must meet local, state or federal standards (whichever is most stringent) for residential, unrestricted use. (For more details on remediation efforts, see SSc3: Brownfield Redevelopment.) 

If there are no contamination concerns, ask for an executive summary stating that the project was not found to have high concentrations of contaminants and no remediation is required. Use this to document compliance with the prerequisite. (See the Documentation Toolkit for an example.)

Sound Transmission Class

Facilities personnel can monitor and respond to any complaints about acoustics. This could include periodically metering decibel levels during the school day.