Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.1, v2 - LEED 2.0

Inquiry

On a large commercial highrise core-and-shell project, the flooring, paints, hallway carpeting, and other pre-tenant improvement finish features are identical on every floor. One floor is aready occupied; the rest are currently vacant (although others will be soon occupied). Because of the time of year, the two-week flushout is not practical for this building, and testing every floor would be very costly simply to document practices that were already performed. We propose that we can meet the intent of this credit by: 1. conducting the IAQ tests in every 25,000 sf space or continguous floor area, whichever is larger, as approved in the CIR ruling dated 9/6/2002, but on only one floor as a respresentative sample of the building, 2. have our mechancial engineer or general contractor certify that every floor is finished identically, and that the occupied floor was finished identically to the tested floor prior to any tenant improvement work.