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, v2 - LEED 2.0

Inquiry

In a same site, it will be built a large complex construction including three different projects: a Shopping Center, a Hotel Tower and an Office Tower. Each of the three projects belongs to different owners. The Shopping Center\'s Owner had decided not to include its Project into LEED\'s Certification scope. So, our LEED\'s Projects are restricted only to the Hotel and Office Tower. Therefore, we were contracted for two LEED\'s Projects individually. All construction will involve the following structures: - 6 underground parking floors which must serve the whole complex; - Shopping Center\'s structure placed over the whole site area composed by main ground floor and 3 mall floors; - There will be separated and identified areas belonging to the Shopping (mall, fast food area), Hotel (reception, restaurant, conference rooms, auditorium) and Office Towers (lobby, administration rooms, etc.) placed in the 6 parking floors and Shopping floors (ground floor + 3 mall floors) - The Hotel and Office towers typical floors will be built over the Shopping structure. Some others information: - All building facilities projects (energy, potable water, non potable water and gas) are separated in their construction (per building), except common areas as underground parking floors; - There will be separated contracts for whole project, formalizing (according to the owner\'s requirements) percentage rates, based on each gross square footage of the constructions compared to the total area, which will be applied to share construction budgets in common areas (parking floors). So, we are considering the following procedures for LEED\'s calculations and boundary areas definitions: - We will only consider areas belonging to each construction (Hotel and Office towers only) to get the areas (gross square footage, vegetated areas, etc.) for LEED\'s calculations; - In common areas as underground parking floor, we will consider the Hotel and Office tower contractual percent rates to all LEED\'s calculations, including Energy Simulation considerations and results; - With the same percent rate as above, concerning to Materials and Resources, we will consider that rate as an index to separate and count materials and resources related to common area construction activities as underground and shopping floors. Are these considerations acceptable by the USGBC?