Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: Schools

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - Schools 2007

Inquiry

Our company is a mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP) Project Management, Engineering, and Commissioning design firm. We are located in Seattle WA. We currently have a project that we are the MEP Manager working for the General Contractor. Although we have a management role, we have no design responsibility or control over the actual design activities that are being performed by the responsible design/build professionals. There are no financial or managerial relationships between our company and the responsible design professionals. The MEP Manager activities include:  Creation of mechanical and electrical Requests for Proposals.  Development of Design Development mechanical Budgets alongside design/build subcontractors bidding the project.  Evaluation of MEP subcontractor bids summarized in spreadsheet form delivered to GC prior to interviews.  Attendance at MEP interviews.  Summary of MEP subcontractor proposals, bids, and interviews in spreadsheet form for final evaluation by GC.  Attend design meetings during preconstruction to ensure trade coordination is occurring among team members.  Attend detailing meetings during preconstruction to ensure trade coordination is occurring among team members.  Facilitate the selection of the DDC Controls and Security contractors.  Construction Meeting attendance as required. In addition to the MEP Management services, the client has asked us to provide both Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning Services for LEED NC 2.2 compliance. The LEED Commissioning services would be performed as follows:  We maintain dedicated Commissioning staff, separate from our MEP management staff.  The Commissioning staff would report directly to the project\'s Owner, unlike the MEP staff which reports to the GC. We want to confirm that performing services for two separate roles from two separate divisions of the company is acceptable. Since there have been previous rulings allowing third party commissioning work to be contracted by a Design Build Contractor we feel that the intent of the Enhanced Commissioning credit is met if the General Contractor has hired our commissioning agents as an independent third-party commissioning provider. To ensure that the conflict of interest is minimized, we will maintain a clear, direct line of communication from the commissioning providers to the owner.