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A few days ago I got a very interesting email from my new best friend Dan Overbey of Browning Day Mullins Deirdorf Architects. He relayed a story about a client who was building a 16,000 sf horizontally attached addition to an existing 25,000 sf building. The client was committed to sustainable design and was very enthusiastic about pursuing LEED. When BDMD …
Real Life LEED 2010-06-30 20:32:00
Despite the fact that I almost live on the interwebs and have a penchant for butchering images in photoshop, I'm not the most technologically advanced person when it comes to Revit and the bevy of associated environmental modeling programs available. I got an email from one of my colleagues asking how to interpret the following requirement for compliance with EQc8.1, Daylight …
Real Life LEED 2010-06-15 21:30:00
A few weeks ago I was provided with a copy of The Cost of LEED whitepaper ($49 + shipping) from BuildingGreen*, and I must say I'm impressed. The report is by no means flawless, but it's the first one I've seen that provides designers with a credit-by-credit 'back of napkin' figures to use to calculate cost premiums for various design strategies. To …
Real Life LEED 2010-06-08 19:26:00
Though it hasn't received a tremendous amount of attention*, part of the LEED v3 updates included various paths by which LEED project registrations can be cancelled and people can challenge existing LEED certifications and possibly have those projects' LEED status revoked! If you haven't browsed it yet, I would highly recommend flipping through the GBCI LEED Policy Manual, which lays out the …
Real Life LEED 2010-05-27 21:42:00
or How I learned to stop worrying and just self report One of the biggest initial complaints about the new LEED Credentialing Maintenance Program (CMP) was that people who sign up were going to have a pay substantial sums to get their Continuing Education (CE) hours. While free opportunities are still not widespread, there are now enough free resources out there on the …
Real Life LEED 2010-05-24 21:14:00
A few days ago Mark Walter of Virtual Cx dropped me a link to his blog, appropriately called Building Commissioning. Billed as "the largest Building Commissioning blog in the United States", there is an even mix of system profiles, commissioning (Cx) guidance, Cx cost/benefit info, and standard/code development commentary in it's 100+ posts and articles. Though a corporate blog, he doesn't …
Real Life LEED 2010-05-14 22:30:00
Christ!LEED ND Project Certification Rates Effective April 28, 2010 LEED ND Project Application Review Fees SLL Prerequisite Review $2,250 (flat fee) Expedited SLL Prerequisite Review $5,000 Initial Stage Review Fees For Projects under 320 Acres $18,000for the first 20 acres $350 for each additional acre For Projects 320 Acres or More $123,000 (flat fee) Expedited Review $25,000 Subsequent Stage Review Fees For Projects under 320 acres $10,000 for the first 20 acres $350 for each additional acre For Projects 320 acres …
Real Life LEED 2010-05-14 16:35:00
I just finished up an education session at the USGBC South Carolina conference I mentioned previously. As I promised the attendees earlier, I've loaded the presentation online so everyone can take full advantage of the links included. For regular readers who didn't attend, many of the links are already featured on the right side of the screen, but I did some research …
Real Life LEED 2010-04-30 15:37:00
In case anyone doubted just how big of a nerd I really am, I'm proud to announce another blog, the LS3P Knowledge Center, that I've recently started up based on my work as a researcher at LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. I haven't discussed it much here, but believe it or not I don't spend all day every day working on LEED project …
Real Life LEED 2010-04-28 19:57:00
Regular readers know I have a standing policy against posting announcements, case studies, or other related info about new LEED certified projects... mostly because you can find them all over the place. Well... today I'm breaking that commitment a little, but I promise to do it the Real Life LEED way (read: I'll focus on quirky details that interest me and …
Real Life LEED 2010-04-23 12:33:00
So the fine folks over at LEEDuser* somehow convinced me to turn my post on LEED Green Associate (LEED GA) exam advice into a FREE, full-blown webinar on the same subject next Tuesday, April 27th at 3:00pm EST. I've been working on the slides yesterday and this morning and instead of going into what I'll be talking about (hint: it's about …
Real Life LEED 2010-04-22 16:01:00
After a refreshing weekend in the desert of California (ok... technically I was on a giant polo field), I came back to find a few important announcements about the LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system, namely that there are now LEED AP ND specialists out there and that the system is going to be launched on April 29th! Did I mention …
Real Life LEED 2010-04-07 23:00:00
I don't talk about it very often, but I've served on a local USGBC branch in South Carolina for a few years now, and after my term ended at the beginning of the year for some reason I was dumb enough to volunteer to help plan our second annual conference, Sustain SC, to be held on May 12-14, 2010 at the …
Real Life LEED 2010-03-31 22:30:00
I noticed a while back from the USGBC updates that residential certifications were quickly catching up to their commercial counterparts. A USGBC Update from 03.11.10 there are now 5,000 'residential' certifications and 4,890 commercial projects in existence, though there are still slightly more commercial registered projects... amazing growth considering the first LEED-NC system was released over ten years ago while LEED-Homes …
Real Life LEED 2010-03-19 18:47:00
Last week I wrapped up a four week training course training people at my day-job to pass the LEED Green Associate exam. As part of preparing this course, I asked various companies to provide me with their training materials. The result is hopefully a high pass rate from the people in my class and a great opportunity to make some recommendations …
Real Life LEED 2010-02-26 14:03:00
I stumbled onto concise but comprehensive article by Chris Dixon in Walls & Ceilings magazine called Straight Green: Alternative VOC Calculation for LEED. Basically, it walks you through the process of preparing a VOC budget (what you need to do if the contractor slips in a non-compliant paint or adhesive) as an alternative compliance measure for achieving EQc4, Low Emitting Materials …
Real Life LEED 2010-02-22 22:53:00
I track a number of various USGBC email updates both for the information they provide and the statistics that they post in the title bar. Today I noticed something interesting in the latest USGBC Update... to the best of my knowledge (based on these emails and past presentations from the USGBC), the "members" figure has decreased for the first time in …
Real Life LEED 2010-02-22 22:53:00
I track a number of various USGBC email updates both for the information they provide and the statistics that they post in the title bar. Today I noticed something interesting in the latest USGBC Update... to the best of my knowledge (based on these emails and past presentations from the USGBC), the "members" figure has decreased for the first time in …
Real Life LEED 2010-02-18 00:30:00
or [pessimistically] New LEED Fees Penalize Separate Design and Construction Reviews I'm two weeks into a four week LEED Green Associate training course* I'm giving at my firm, and yesterday we went over the LEED rating systems and the steps you have to go through to earn certification. As much of the process is the same as it was in the v2 system, …
Real Life LEED 2010-02-18 00:30:00
or [pessimistically] New LEED Fees Penalize Separate Design and Construction Reviews I'm two weeks into a four week LEED Green Associate training course* that I'm giving at my firm, and yesterday we went over the LEED rating systems and the steps you have to go through to earn certification. As much of the process is the same as it was in the v2 …
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