FYI... I found this report from the Leonardo Academy pretty helpful for understanding the time and effort involved in certifying a building under LEED-EB... What's most interesting is the large commitment required by the owner, quantified in both hours and costs/sf in the report.
I so want to believe in LEED. I just read the LEED 2009 draft. we are going to make the comitment to becoming an AP and or CxA.
as it relates to costs the requirement that hiring another outside person as an AP might spook the smaller projects.
I am also worried about the requiremnt that the ap or CxA needs to be independent of the project team.
I still feel that that that will eventually ceed control of the project to the AP. LEED wants the AP and the CxA to be contracted to the OWNER not the design or constrution team. I feel that the concept that they can be in the firm and not be impartial will be phased out. Just say Anderson Consulting and Enron.
To be clear... there is no official "AP" role required. I happen to be a LEED AP who works in an architecture firm, and I frequently am brought into our LEED projects to help coordinate and smooth the documentation process. Non-LEED AP project managers could do the same process on their own though as far as the USGBC is concerned.
I think the point of having an independent CxA is more to act as an additional set of eyes reviewing the MEP components and maximizing their performance. If a mechanical engineering company designates another person within their firm to perform the same review process I'm not sure it will ever actually happen.
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LEED-EB "Economics" (read: Costs and Fees) Report Released
FYI... I found this report from the Leonardo Academy pretty helpful for understanding the time and effort involved in certifying a building under LEED-EB... What's most interesting is the large commitment required by the owner, quantified in both hours and costs/sf in the report.
I wrote a synopsis:
http://reallifeleed.blogspot.com/2008/05/leed-eb-fees-explained.html
or you can access the report directly:
http://www.leonardoacademy.org/download/Final%20Report%20on%20the%20Economics%20of%20LEED-EB-2008-4-23.pdf
Joel McKellar, LEED AP
http://www.reallifeleed.com
Joel,
Very interesting. Is there a similar report on LEED for new construction?
I so want to believe in LEED. I just read the LEED 2009 draft. we are going to make the comitment to becoming an AP and or CxA.
as it relates to costs the requirement that hiring another outside person as an AP might spook the smaller projects.
I am also worried about the requiremnt that the ap or CxA needs to be independent of the project team.
I still feel that that that will eventually ceed control of the project to the AP. LEED wants the AP and the CxA to be contracted to the OWNER not the design or constrution team. I feel that the concept that they can be in the firm and not be impartial will be phased out. Just say Anderson Consulting and Enron.
To be clear... there is no official "AP" role required. I happen to be a LEED AP who works in an architecture firm, and I frequently am brought into our LEED projects to help coordinate and smooth the documentation process. Non-LEED AP project managers could do the same process on their own though as far as the USGBC is concerned.
I think the point of having an independent CxA is more to act as an additional set of eyes reviewing the MEP components and maximizing their performance. If a mechanical engineering company designates another person within their firm to perform the same review process I'm not sure it will ever actually happen.
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