Unless following the "budget method" discussed above, check to make sure that the buildingfootprint will allow the construction team to stay within the site disturbance parameters set forth in the credit language. You need to limit site disturbance to:
Consider including a section in your tenant guidelines that discusses sustainable operations and maintenance, and encourages the entire building to pursue LEED-EBOM. This is more likely for single-tenant buildings.
If you require tenants to purchase specific materials and systems, or to meet certain performance standards, you may achieve better environmental performance, but may also narrow your selection of tenants.
Providing tenants with submetering capability and making them responsible for their own energy use can help to lower the building’s energy consumption as well as assist tenants in earning LEED-CI certification. Doing so also, contributes to earning EAc5.2 for your LEED-CS certification.
You may find that, in order to attain LEED-CS certification, you must require tenants to meet certain performance or prescriptive requirements, such as energy and ventilation requirements, installation of walk-off mats, or refrigerant charge specifications. You might want to include the required measures in the tenant guidelines and the lease agreement, along with suggested recommendations. Doing this is not required for complying with SSc9, but may be necessary for other credits where the requirements cannot be fulfilled with the core-and-shell project alone.
Your aim is to help tenants fully understand the core-and-shell building systems and design, as well as how they can benefit from and contribute to sustainability within the building through achievement of LEED-CI. Some project teams share all cut sheets and product data used on the core-and-shell building as a way to encourage the use of the same or similar materials and systems within tenant spaces. Others require (in tenant guidelines and lease agreements) specific materials and systems that mirror relevant LEED requirements.
