With the new state wide green building code and local municipal requirements for landscape irrigation, how is a baseline developed when regional requirements now approach what was a 50% reduction?

We are using LEED 2009 for Retail: NC+MR templates, for one of our projects. In WE Pre-requisite 1Template, there is Process Water Use section. One of the column is named ADO.

This might be a rather simple question, but would like avoid confusion.

I have completed filling out the template for the prescriptive path, including over 75% daylit space, when skylight and window areas are combined, yet the template summary is still showing '0 point

Hi, We've only done the mechanical portion for this project but the client assigned to us the EAc1 credits.

I have a zero lot line project, so all landscaped areas are within planters on the plaza level, or in tree wells in the sidewalk.

We are certifying a Hotel Project earning credit SSc2.

I am working on a lab building near the coast where seawater is pumped into the building for use by researchers.

I am working on a building that supplies process cooling water (PCW) to lab spaces. The PCW rejects its heat through a heat exchanger to the chilled water system from a district energy plant.

I found in ASHRAE 62.1-2004 standard that using a vestibule to provide airlock between garage and regulary occupied spaces is a compilant way to limit the entry of exhaust gases. Is it possible to