LEED'S GOALS

to achieve seven goals:

· To reverse the contribution to global climate change

· To enhance individual human health and well-being

· To protect and restore water resources

· To protect, enhance, and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services

· To promote sustainable and regenerative material resources cycles

· To build a greener economy

· To enhance social equity, environmental justice, community health, and quality of life

· Discovery. The most important phase of the integrative process, discovery, can be considered an
extensive expansion of what is conventionally called predesign. A project is unlikely to meet its
environmental goals cost-effectively without this discrete phase. Discovery work should take place
before schematic design begins.

· Design and construction (implementation). This phase begins with what is conventionally called
schematic design. It resembles conventional practice but integrates all the work and collective
understanding of system interactions reached during the discovery phase.

· Occupancy, operations, and performance feedback. This third stage focuses on preparing to
measure performance and creating feedback mechanisms. Assessing performance against targets is
critical for informing building operations and identifying the need for any corrective action.

DEVISING A LEED WORK PLAN

It is recommended that LEED applicants follow a series of steps to certification.

STEP 1. INITIATE DISCOVERY PHASE

STEP 2. SELECT LEED RATING SYSTEM

STEP 3. CHECK MINIMUM PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

STEP 4. ESTABLISH PROJECT GOALS

STEP 5. DEFINE LEED PROJECT SCOPE

STEP 6. DEVELOP LEED SCORECARD

STEP 7. CONTINUE DISCOVERY PHASE

STEP 8. CONTINUE ITERATIVE PROCESS

STEP 10. DEVELOP CONSISTENT DOCUMENTATION

STEP 11. PERFORM QUALITY ASSURANCE REVIEW AND SUBMIT FOR CERTIFICATION

EQUATION 1.

FTE employees = Full-time employees + (Σ daily part-time employee hours / 8)

EQUATION 2.

FTE employees = (Σ all employee hours / 8)

Minimum Program Requirements

1. MUST BE IN A PERMANENT LOCATION ON EXISTING LAND

PERCENTAGE OF FLOOR AREA APPROPRIATE FOR A PARTICULAR RATING SYSTEM

40% - 60%PROJECT’S TEAM CHOICE

<40%SHOULD NOT USE THAT RATING SYSTEM

>60%SHOULD USE THAT RATING SYSTEM

Examples of regularly occupied spaces include the following:

· Airplane hangar

· Auditorium

· Auto service bay

· Bank teller station

· Conference room

· Correctional facility cell or day room

· Data center network operations center

· Data center security operations center

· Dorm room

· Exhibition hall

· Facilities staff office

· Food service facility dining area

· Food service facility kitchen area

· Gymnasium

· Hospital autopsy and morgue

· Hospital critical-care area

· Hospital dialysis and infusion area

· Hospital exam room

· Hospital operating room

· Hospital patient room

· Hospital recovery area

· Hospital staff room

· Hospital surgical suite

· Hospital waiting room

· Hospital diagnostic and treatment area

· Hospital laboratory

· Hospital nursing station

· Hospital solarium

· Hospital waiting room

· Hotel front desk

· Hotel guest room

· Hotel housekeeping area

· Hotel lobby

· Information desk

· Meeting room

· Natatorium

· Open-office workstation

· Private Office

· Reception desk

· Residential bedroom

· Residential dining room

· Residential living room

· Residential office, den, workroom

· Retail merchandise area and associated circulation

· Retail sales transaction area

· School classroom

· School media center

· School student activity room

· School study hall

· Shipping and receiving office

· Study carrel

· Warehouse materials- handling area

Examples of non-regularly occupied spaces include the following:

· Break room

· Circulation space

· Copy room

· Corridor

· Fire station apparatus bay

· Hospital linen area

· Hospital medical record area

· Hospital patient room bathroom

· Hospital short-term charting space

· Hospital prep and cleanup area in surgical suite

· Interrogation room

· Lobby (except hotel lobby)*

· Locker room

· Residential bathroom

· Residential laundry area

· Residential walk-in closet

· Restroom
· Retail fitting area

· Retail stock room

· Shooting range

· Stairway

OPTION 1. INNOVATION (1 POINT)

Achieve significant, measurable environmental performance using a strategy not addressed in the
LEED green

building rating system.

Identify the following:

· the intent of the proposed innovation credit;

· proposed requirements for compliance;

· proposed submittals to demonstrate compliance; and

· the design approach or strategies used to meet the requirements.

AND/OR

OPTION 2. PILOT (1 POINT)

Achieve one pilot credit from USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit Library

AND/OR

OPTION 3. ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES

Innovation (1-3 points)

· Defined in Option 1 above.

INNOVATION CREDIT

Innovation

This credit applies to:

Data Centers (1–5 points)

Warehouses and Distribution Centers (1–5 points)

Hospitality (1–5 points)

Healthcare (1–5 points)

Core and Shell (1–5 points)

Schools (1-5 points)

Retail (1–5 points)

Innovation : INTENT

To encourage projects to achieve exceptional or innovative performance.

OPTION 1. INNOVATION (1 POINT)

Achieve significant, measurable environmental performance using a strategy not addressed in the
LEED green building rating system.

Identify the following:

· the intent of the proposed innovation credit;

· proposed requirements for compliance;

· proposed submittals to demonstrate compliance; and

· the design approach or strategies used to meet the requirements.

AND/OR

OPTION 2. PILOT (1 POINT)

Achieve one pilot credit from USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit Library

AND/OR

OPTION 3. ADDITIONAL STRATEGIES

Innovation (1-3 points)

· Defined in Option 1 above.

Pilot (1–3 points)

· Meet the requirements of Option 2.

Exemplary Performance (1–2 points)

· Achieve exemplary performance in an existing LEED v4 prerequisite or credit that allows exemplary
performance, as specified in the LEED Reference Guide, v4 edition. An exemplary performance point
is typically earned for achieving double the credit requirements or the next incremental percentage
threshold.