A developer certifies a 10 story residential building using the LEED Core and Shell rating system. He then sells the residential appartments to individual buyers, the building will no longer one entity. As such it would loose its C&S certification. Is that correct?

Hi,
this may be a silly question, but I do not know if there is any special requirement o detail that force me to start a project following CS v4 instead CS 2009. Is CS 2009 obsolete? I know it is recommended to start as soon as possible with CS v4, but is there a critical reason for it?

We have a client that thought in CS 2009 and we do not know if, when CS v4 is already working, if it is possible to start the registration with CS2009.

Thank you in advance and sunny regards.

Hello.

One review comments that i have received about E&Ap2 prerequisite is:

2. No exterior lighting power has been modeled for the Baseline or Proposed Case. Confirm that no exterior lighting is included in the building site or revise the models to reflect exterior lighting. Verify that the Proposed Case exterior lighting reflects the actual building design and the Baseline Case reflects the allowed lighting power from Section 9. Ensure that no credit is taken in the Proposed Case for lighting reductions on non#tradable surfaces; additional lighting power allowance cannot be claimed in the Baseline Case for surfaces that are not provided with lighting in the actual design and lighting fixtures cannot be double-counted for different exterior surfaces. Report the tradable and non#tradable surface lighting power separately (in units of Watts or Kilowatts) for both the Baseline and Proposed Case in Supplemental Table 1.4. Update the model and results to reflect exterior lighting if included in the model and is consistent with SSc8: Light Pollution Reduction.

I´m updating the Section 1.4 with new version (Jan 2014), and I have a problem with this excell (Secction 1.4):

When i input the Total Exterior Lighting Power Modeled (Watts), similar to Total Exterior Lighting Power Calculated (Watts), this cells are coloured red.

I don´t understand the reason to happen it.

Do I have to include these Kw (exterior lighting) in my Baseline and Proposed models?? Or no.

Thanks in advanced

Dear all,

our previous version of the baseline model in a C&S building had the same ventilation rates than the proposed. But, we were advised by the reviewer to change it in the zone with a ventilation demand control and model the ventilation rates as the ashrae minimum rates.
We find out that these values are much lower than the ones we have in the proposed studio, and we lose 4 points (due to % savings reduction). It is hard to see that installing a control demand system is worst than a normal system.
What do you think? Maybe is there something wrong? It can be possible due to different regulations (spain vs usa)? What can we do to reflect the benefits of the demand control?
Thank you in advance and sunny regards.