Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0, v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - LEED 2.2, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - Schools 2007, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009

Inquiry

This project is a 12,000 s.f. addition to an existing office building thereby meeting the size requirements for LEED-NC. The project is located on a 20-acre working farm in a semi-rural area of the township. It has been determined that it qualifies as Environmental Zone E2. The new building addition is attached on the westerly side of the existing office building where it is bordered by live stock pasture leading up to rail road tracks (west property line). The property area in front of the new building addition consists of a small parking lot expansion which sits behind another live stock pasture, bordered by a road (north property line). On the south side of the new building addition is an existing and expanded parking area and existing farm buildings. The new building addition sits 100 or more feet from the property line on every side of the site and its elevation is below grade level of the road it fronts on (northern property line). The small parking lot expansion in the front of the new building addition did not require any new lighting. There are three new 8\' poles with decorative fixtures that were selected to match the existing lighting on site. These three poles are located at the corners of the new building addition and on the edge of the back parking lot, next to existing farm buildings. They provide mostly downward directed light, but do not meet the cutoff or full cutoff classification. Based on the calculations done for these three fixtures (and some downlights located in the entrance canopies), there are many areas of the site with zero footcandles. No light comes anywhere near the property line, so light trespass is not an issue. The three light poles have 150W High Pressure Sodium decorative, post-top, luminaires. They emit approximately 30% of the fixture lumens above 90