Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

This project involves the construction of a new 3- story office building and computer facility on a military base. The existing base master plan places the building in an area adjacent to an obsolete runway. Rather than incurring the cost of removing a substantial portion of the 24-inch thick, reinforced concrete paving; the design team has sited the building such that a portion of the runway can be used for the 800 parking stalls requested by the users. Since the project is in a campus-type setting, the project team understands that it can choose to include or exclude the runway from its site and hence all calculations. The design team would like to receive recognition for reusing a resource that would otherwise require the use of green space, be extremely expensive as well as labor intensive to remove or to replace with an equivalent parking area. CIR\'s and examples in the Reference Guide pertaining to MRc3.1 refer to materials reused in a building not in a project as a whole. We would like to broaden the definition of building material. We believe reusing the runway for parking satisfies the intent of this credit even if technically the pavement is not part of a building, but is part of the project. Since we are: