Rating System

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

Rating System Version

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

Inquiry

The FM Global Headquarters project is a new 350,000 SF office building, with detached parking garage, on a Greenfield site. The project is seeking to achieve SS Credit 5.1, which requires very specific "limits of disturbances" on the project, minimizing said disturbances to be within a maximum distance from proposed roadways, utility lines, storm-water management facilities, etc. Due to the existing topography changes, this project needs considerable amount of retaining walls in an effort to meet this LEED Credit requirement. Our questions are as follows: