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Bldg Footprint_Cooling Tower & Generator

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Nancy Goshow  on 

We have a cooling tower and emergency generator adjacent to our building that is on a concrete pad and surrounded by a screen enclosure. Should this area count as part of the building footprint?

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Wed Jul 27, 2011, 11:00 pm

Land trust

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Gabriela Hernández Castillo  on 

Our project has very limited landscape options and I just found out about the offsite land donation. We are by no means familiar with the Land trust nor the EPA level III ecoregion.

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Tue Feb 21, 2012, 7:56 pm

Open bottom planters

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer  on 

Reading the missing manuals I saw that planters can contribute to credit compliance as long as they are open bottom. By language barriers we do not fully understand the difference betweet an open

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Wed Jul 10, 2013, 3:13 pm

project footprint definiton

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  tanner white  on 

I have a building with 3 foot overhangs around it.

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Thu Aug 30, 2012, 7:44 pm

Vegetated area requirement

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  JOHN BURNETT  on 

Hello, I am working on a project in China. According to local standards, only area with 600mm (approx.

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Sat Jul 26, 2014, 4:07 pm

Restored Areas

posted by  Joaquim Lima  on 
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Fri Oct 29, 2010, 7:11 pm

PV Panels

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Ciaran McCabe  on 

Can PV panels be installed among a green roof. Whats the official line LEED takes with this.

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Thu Jan 19, 2017, 2:03 pm

Building footprint

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Albert Tappe  on 

Our project is an office tower connected to a large 4 level car park with a public plaza on top and retail at the perimeter on ground level.

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Wed Jul 27, 2011, 11:25 pm

Off-site Native Vegetation

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Phil Meyer  on 

Can anyone clarify how we can achieve SSc5.1 through the use of off-site native vegetation? Do we use an alternative compliance approach and submit forms from LEED EBOM for this same credit?

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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 3:15 am

Offsite Landscape

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site development - protect or restore habitat
posted by  Irina Serrano  on 

I'm working on a project in Sao Paulo, Brazil and our project will implement a green area (1506.95 sf) outside our leed project boundary.

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Sat Jul 14, 2012, 5:49 pm