Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

Our project consists of a total of 6 new buildings within an existing university property line and designated for use by the university students and faculty. The LEED project boundary line encompasses the 6 buildings as one LEED submittal as outlined in the "LEED-NC Application Guide for Multiple Buildings and on Campus Building Projects." Five of the buildings are mixed use type with 90% of the building area being categorized as student housing (dorm units) and the remaining areas located on the 1st floor consist of classrooms, offices, mail room, administration areas and other student amenities. The 6th building is a food services building that consists of a cafeteria, conference rooms, and a campus maintenance area. Our credit interpretation request is in regards to the choice of calculation methodology for our project. Since the project falls within an Institutional setting and is used by the students and faculty, we are planning to use the institutional requirements of bike racks and or storage for 5% of all building users and showers for 0.5% of FTE across the entire project measured at peak periods. Please confirm that our interpretation of university student housing and food service areas shall follow the institutional requirement.