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Many slides are courtesy of USGBC and the LEED v4 Team!
The View The View The View The View
from the from the from the from the
MEP Seats!MEP Seats!MEP Seats!MEP Seats!
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LEED 2009 FOUNDATIONAL LEED v4
A SHIFT
IN
FOCUS
DEEPER
TRANSFORMATION
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LEED v4
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Location and Transportation
Sustainable Sites
Water Efficiency
Energy and Atmosphere
Indoor Environmental Quality
Innovation and Design Process
Regional Priority
Integrative Process
Materials and Resources
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Platinum
Gold
Silver
Certified
CERTIFICATION TRENDS
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GREEN BUILDING MARKET
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction’s 2013 Dodge Construction Green Outlook
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COMMERCIAL OFFICE
MARKET SHARE
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction’s 2013 Dodge Construction Green Outlook
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DOE 30%
Reduction
Target
Courtesy PNNL
ASHRAE 90.1-2013?
ASHRAE 90-1975 ASHRAE 90A-1980
ASHRAE 90.1-1999
ASHRAE 90.1-2001
ASHRAE 90.1-2007
ASHRAE 90.1-2004
ASHRAE 90.1-1989
ASHRAE 90.1-2010
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LEED v4 IMPACT CATEGORIES
IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES
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LEED CERTIFICATION TRENDSMARKET SECTOR ADAPTATIONS
Data Centers
Warehouses and Distribution Centers
Hospitality
Existing Buildings for Schools
Existing Buildings for Retail
Homes Multifamily Midrise
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BD+CLEED v4BUILDING DESIGN &
CONSTRUCTION
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New Categories
• Integrated Practice 1 point
• Location & Transport 16 points
• Sustainable Sites 10 points
• Water Efficiency 11 points
• Energy and Atmosphere 33 points
• Materials and Resources 13 points
• Indoor Environmental Quality 16 points
• Innovation & Design Process 6 points
• Regional Priority Credits 4 points
Total 110 points
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No Change in Level Requirements
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Certified Silver Gold Platinum Total
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Change in Weightings!
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Change in Weightings!
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Use v4 Credits now!
• Select v4 credits can be substituted for v2009
• Complete v4 sample form
• In v2009 form, check alternate compliance
path and list the substitution
• Credits marked are approved for substitution
• Site below has more detailed information
• Can also use Pilot Credits that are applicable
http://www.usgbc.org/articles/use-v4-credits-your-v2009-project/
v2009
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IP101r Integrated Project Planning
and Design
• The prerequisite only applies to HC
• Credit library now says “required”
• New prerequisite, but not quite a category!
• Requires:
– OPR
– Preliminary Rating Goals
– Integrated Project Team
– Design Charette
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IP102 Integrative Process
• New credit (HC too)
• 1 point
• Early “simple box” energy analysis
• Lists parametric options to reviewed
• Includes water performance
• Requires cost analysis and bundling
• Documentation in Word Document Template
• Reward for doing the analysis early
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Performance in
Location and Transportation
LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION
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Highlights:
New credit category to improve alignment between
commercial rating systems and LEED ND.
More performance-based credits with improved ties to
anticipated outcome.
bicycle facilities [link to bike network]
quality transit [trip frequency, walking distance]
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Possible Points: 16
Credit 1 16
Credit 2 1
Credit 3 2
Credit 4 5
Credit 5 5
Credit 6 1
Credit 7 1
Credit 8 Green Vehicles 1
BD+C Location and Transportation
Sensitive Land Protection
LEED for Neighborhood Development Location
Bicycle Facilities
High Priority Site
Surrounding Density and Diverse Uses
Access to Quality Transit
Reduced Parking Footprint
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Performance in
Sustainable Sites
SUSTAINABLE SITES
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Highlights:
New credit for site assessment.
Financial support option in protect or restore habitat.
Major simplification to Light Pollution Reduction credit
through new option for BUG rated equipment.
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Possible Points: 10
Y Prereq 1 Required
Credit 1 1
Credit 2 2
Credit 3 1
Credit 4 3
Credit 5 2
Credit 6 1
BD+C
Site Assessment
Site Development--Protect or Restore Habitat
Rainwater Management
Light Pollution Reduction
Heat Island Reduction
Open Space
Construction Activity Pollution Prevention
Sustainable Sites
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LEED 2009 LEED v4
SS112 LIGHT POLLUTION REDUCTION
SS112: Light Pollution
Reduction
CREDIT
Significant revisions – very little original content
Removed interior lighting requirements
(part of 90.1-2010 requirements now)
References IES/IDA Model Lighting Ordinance
Included the BUG rating system for prescriptive compliance
Added Lighting Zone 0
Included exterior storage signage requirements
SSc8: Light Pollution
Reduction
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
1
v2009
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Performance in
Water Efficiency
WATER EFFICIENCY
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Highlights:
Addressing all water uses including fixtures & fittings,
process, appliance, cooling towers, and outdoor water.
Focus on measuring water use through fundamental
building metering requirements.
Additional points in credit for metering of subsystems.
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Possible Points: 11
Y Prereq 1 Required
Y Prereq 2 Required
Y Prereq 3 Building-Level Water Metering Required
Credit 1 2
Credit 2 6
Credit 3 2
Credit 4 Water Metering 1
BD+C Water Efficiency
Outdoor Water Use Reduction
Indoor Water Use Reduction
Outdoor Water Use Reduction
Indoor Water Use Reduction
Cooling Tower Water Use
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WE PREREQ 1 OUTDOOR WATER USE REDUCTION
Requires a reduction in landscape water use by 30% using
EPA’s WaterSense Water Budget Toolkit
Option to comply by having no irrigation
Cannot use rainwater capture for prerequisite!
LEED v4
WEp1: Outdoor Water Use Reduction
PREREQ
LEED 2009
Didn’t Exist
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WE PREREQ 2 INDOOR WATER USE REDUCTION
WaterSense label required for eligible fixtures and fittings
Maintains 20% reduction requirement
No once-through cooling allowed!
Cooling towers must have meters, conductivity control, and drift eliminators
Additional appliance and process water requirements for
Retails, Schools, Healthcare and Hospitality only.
LEED v4
WEp2: Indoor Water Use Reduction
PREREQ
LEED 2009
WE: Water Use Reduction
PREREQ
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WE PREREQ 3 BUILDING LEVEL WATER METERING
Requires each project to be capable of measuring
whole building water use
LEED v4
WEp3: Building Level Water Metering
PREREQ
LEED 2009
Didn’t Exist
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WE CREDIT 1 OUTDOOR WATER USE REDUCTION
Changed from “Landscape” to “Outdoor”
Limits use of “water”, not just potable water
Requires a reduction in landscape water use by at least 50%
using EPA’s WaterSense Water Budget Tool
Reductions beyond 30% can be from “alternate water sources”
such as rainwater capture
Option for no irrigation
LEED 2009 LEED v4
WEc1: Outdoor Water Use
Reduction
CREDIT POINTS
2WEc1: Water Efficient
Landscaping
CREDIT POINTS
2-4
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WE CREDIT 2 INDOOR WATER USE REDUCTION
Limits use of “water”, not just potable water
Reductions beyond 30% can be from “alternate water sources”
such as rainwater capture
WaterSense label required for eligible fixtures and fittings
Added Appliance and Process Water requirements for Schools
Retail, Hospitality and Healthcare
Added more thresholds for achievement
LEED 2009
LEED v4
WEc2: Indoor Water Use
Reduction
CREDIT POINTS
6
WE: Water Use Reduction
CREDIT POINTS
2-4
WE: Process Water Use
Reduction (Schools)
CREDIT POINTS
1
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Credit no longer available for sustainable wastewater technologies
Reduces credits available for rainwater capture
New concept of nutrient recovery will be tested with Pilot Credit
LEED 2009
WE: Innovative Wastewater
Technologies
CREDIT POINTS
2
LEED v4
Does Not Exist
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WE CREDIT 3 COOLING TOWER WATER
Started in EBOM, then added to HC
Addresses cooling tower efficiency based on maximizing a
cooling tower cycles of concentration
Water may continue to be cycled through the tower until
a certain chemical threshold
Can also gain point for using recycled non-potable water
LEED 2009
Didn’t Exist
LEED v4
WEc3: Cooling Tower Water
CREDIT POINTS
2
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WE CREDIT 4 WATER METERING
Encourages projects to sub-meter additional water systems
Requires meters for 2 or more of following (typically to 80%):
Irrigation
Indoor plumbing fixtures and fittings
Domestic hot water
Boiler make-up (units > 500 MBH)
Reclaimed water (including makeup, proper math!)
Process Water
HC requires 5 more meters from list of 10
LEED v4
WEc4: Water Metering
CREDIT POINTS
2
LEED 2009
Didn’t Exist
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Defining Performance in
Energy & Atmosphere
ENERGY AND ATMOSPHERE
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Highlights:
Minimum Energy Performance: five percent above
ASHRAE 90.1-2010; minimum ENERGY STAR score now
75.
New credit for Demand Response.
Building level energy metering required for all projects.
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Possible Points: 33
Y Prereq 1 Required
Y Prereq 2 Required
Y Prereq 3 Required
Y Prereq 4 Required
Credit 1 6
Credit 2 18
Credit 3 1
Credit 4 2
Credit 5 3
Credit 6 1
Credit 7 2
BD+C
Green Power and Carbon Offsets
Enhanced Commissioning
Demand Response
Renewable Energy Production
Enhanced Refrigerant Management
Optimize Energy Performance
Energy and Atmosphere
Minimum Energy Performance
Building-Level Energy Metering
Fundamental Commissioning and Verification
Fundamental Refrigerant Management
Advanced Energy Metering
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EA PREREQ 1 FUNDAMENTAL COMMISSIONING AND VERIFICATION
Expanded intent to ensure project meets the owners projects requirements
related to energy, water, indoor environmental quality and durability
CxA must be engaged before the end of Design Development phase
Added design review; not specific to when (ie before 50%)
Added requirement for preparing an Operations and Maintenance Plan
(similar but not as extensive as Systems Manual)
Requires Pre-Functional Checklists (often done, was not required)
LEED v4
EAp1: Fundamental Commissioning and
Verification
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EAp1: Fundamental Commissioning of
Building Energy Systems
PREREQ
v2009
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EA PREREQ 1 FUNDAMENTAL COMMISSIONING AND VERIFICATION
Requires exterior enclosures to be included in OPR and BOD
Requires the exterior enclosures to be included in design review,
completed by design team member that is not
directly involved in the design to complete
Intent was to provide incremental step into requiring envelope commissioning
Clarified language for who can be the commissioning agent
(more to be included in reference guide)
LEED v4
EAp1: Fundamental Commissioning and
Verification
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EAp1: Fundamental Commissioning of
Building Energy Systems
PREREQ
v2009
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EA PREREQ 2 MINIMUM ENERGY PERFORMANCE
Updated reference standard to ASHRAE 90.1-2010
Must achieve minimum of 5% savings over baseline, 3% for renovation
Clarifies that project must meet performance levels
prior to application of renewable energy
References COMNET Modeling Guidelines for reduction
of unregulated loads
Special methods for data centers, still including equipment loads
LEED v4
EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
PREREQ
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EA PREREQ 2 MINIMUM ENERGY PERFORMANCE
Updated Advanced Energy Design Guide prescriptive option to 50%
AEDG for Office, Retail, Schools, and Healthcare
Updated Core Performance Guide prescriptive option to meeting
core requirements plus six additional strategies.
LEED v4
EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EAp2: Minimum Energy Performance
PREREQ
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ASHRAE 90.1-2010
• More equipment is being regulated
• Envelope must have more south glazing then east or west
• Skylights or clearstories required in large, tall, top-floor rooms
• Reheat loop holes closed – no more hospitals with constant volume reheat!
• Heating overhead the SA cannot be more than 20 F from space temperature
• Economizers are required for smaller systems
• Many more automatic lighting and daylighting controls required
• 50% of 120V receptacles in offices require automatic switching
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Appendix G
• More detailed documentation requirements
• Enhanced exceptional calculation requirements
• Requires modeling of shading from adjacent structures
• Clarified definition of unmet load hours
• Removes unmet load hours delta of 50
• Purchased HW or CW treated like utility – no trade-offs
• Modified baseline systems for DES
• Consistent with LEED DES requirements now
• Allows different level of ventilation in proposed and baseline design
• Adds heating only baseline systems
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EA PREREQ 3 BUILDING-LEVEL ENERGY METERING
Requires each project to be capable of
measuring whole building energy use.
LEED v4
EAp3: Building-Level Energy Metering
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EA: Measurement and
Verification
CREDIT POINTS
3
EA: Measurement and
Verification Base Building
CREDIT POINTS
3
Measurement and Verification
Tenant Submetering
CREDIT POINTS
3
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EA PREREQ 4 FUNDAMENTAL REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT
No substantive changes
No CFC refrigerants
Existing small units with less than 0.5 pounds are exempt
LEED v4
EAp4: Fundamental Refrigerant
Management
PREREQ
LEED 2009
Fundamental Refrigerant Management
PREREQ
v2009
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EA CREDIT 1 ENHANCED COMMISSIONING
Option 1, Path 1 is for the typical MEP enhanced commissioning
and is now worth 3 points (1 more than v2009)
Reduced the tasks in enhanced
(design review and manual moved to fundamental)
Added requirements to prepare the building operators
for the intended operation of building systems
Option 1, Path 2 is a new Monitoring Based Commissioning
worth 1 more point after Path 1 achieved
Similar to Measurement and Verification.
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc1: Enhanced
Commissioning
CREDIT
EA: Enhanced Commissioning
CREDIT POINTS
2
POINTS
6
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EA CREDIT 1 ENHANCED COMMISSIONING
Option 2 rewards Envelope Commissioning for 2 more points
Can be done separate from MEP systems
References NIBS Guideline 3-2006
Very inclusive standard, no other guidance in the standard
We have seen huge variation in this service and fee!
CxA can be qualified employee of owner, an independent consultant, or
disinterested subcontractor to the design team.
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc1: Enhanced
Commissioning
CREDIT
EA: Enhanced Commissioning
CREDIT POINTS
2
POINTS
6
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EA CREDIT 2 OPTIMIZE ENERGY PERFORMANCE
Updated referenced standard to ASHRAE 90.1-2010
Reduced weightings due to advancing standard
Maximum of 6 points using prescriptive paths
Updated Advanced Energy Design Guides prescriptive option to 50%
AEDG for Office, Retail, Schools, and Healthcare
Updated Core Performance Guide prescriptive option to meeting core
requirements plus six additional strategies
Removed Core Performance Guide prescriptive option
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc2: Optimize Energy
Performance
CREDIT
EA: Optimize Energy
Performance
CREDIT POINTS
19
POINTS
18
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EAc1 v2009
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EAc2 v4
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EA CREDIT 3 ADVANCED ENERGY METERING
LEED v4LEED 2009
EA: Measurement and
Verification
CREDIT POINTS
2
EA: Measurement and
Verification Base Building
CREDIT POINTS
3
EA: Measurement and Verific-
ation Tenant Submetering
CREDIT POINTS
3
EAc3: Advanced Energy
Metering
CREDIT POINTS
1
Requires all energy end-uses
representing 10%+ of the total energy
consumption to be metered
Meters must be connected to the building automation
system and log data at appropriate intervals with 36 months data retention
Core and Shell projects required to address future tenant spaces
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EA CREDIT 4 DEMAND RESPONSE
Encourages projects to design and install systems necessary
to participate in a demand response program
Also available to projects located in areas
without demand response programs = 1 point if ready to engage
Added requirement to include demand response processes
in the commissioning scope
LEED v4
EAc4: Demand Response
CREDIT POINTS
2
LEED 2009
Didn’t Exist
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EA CREDIT 5 RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION
Added new option provision for community-scale renewable energy
systems
Reduced thresholds and points available
1% = 1 point; 5% = 2 points; 10% = 3 points
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc5: Renewable Energy
Production
CREDIT
EA: On-site Renewable Energy
CREDIT POINTS
7
POINTS
3
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EA CREDIT 6 ENHANCED REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT
Added retail-specific requirements
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc6: Enhanced Refrigerant
Management
CREDIT
EA: Enhanced Refrigerant
Management
CREDIT POINTS
2
POINTS
1
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EA CREDIT 7 GREEN POWER AND CARBON OFFSETS
Credit based on total building energy usage
Carbon offsets allowed for scope 1 or 2 emissions
Required contract length extended from 2 years to 5 years
Eligible resources must have come online after January 1, 2005
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EAc7: Green Power and
Carbon Offsets
CREDIT
EA: Green Power
CREDIT POINTS
2
POINTS
2
v2009
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LEED v4
LEED 2009
EA: Measurement and
Verification
CREDIT POINTS
2
EA: Measurement and
Verification Base Building
CREDIT POINTS
3
EA: Measurement and Verific-
ation Tenant Submetering
CREDIT POINTS
3EAc3: Advanced Energy
Metering
CREDIT POINTS
1
Measurement and Verification no longer exists in same form
EAc1 – Option 1, Path 2 – Monitoring Based Commissioning
Would significantly enhanced future EBOM application
LEED v4
EAc1: Enhanced
Commissioning
CREDIT POINTS
6
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Materials & Resources
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
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Highlights:
Life cycle thinking approach to category.
Optional whole building life cycle assessment for new
construction.
Focus on product transparency and outcomes through
Building Disclosure & Optimization credits.
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Possible Points: 13
Y Prereq 1 Required
Y Prereq 2 Required
Credit 1 5
Credit 2 2
Credit 3 2
Credit 4 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Material Ingredients 2
Credit 5 2
BD+C
Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Sourcing of Raw Materials
Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction
Construction and Demolition Waste Management
Construction and Demolition Waste Management Planning
Materials and Resources
Storage and Collection of Recyclables
Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Environmental Product Declarations
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INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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Highlights:
Category focused on key indicators of air, light, sound,
and occupant experience.
More performance-based credits focused on health and
wellbeing outcomes.
Systems approach to material emissions.
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Indoor Environmental Quality Possible Points: 16
Y Prereq 1 Required
Y Prereq 2 Required
Credit 1 2
Credit 2 3
Credit 3 Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan 1
Credit 4 2
Credit 5 1
Credit 6 2
Credit 7 3
Credit 8 1
Credit 9 1
BD+C
Quality Views
Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies
Low-Emitting Materials
Indoor Air Quality Assessment
Minimum Indoor Air Quality Performance
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control
Thermal Comfort
Acoustic Performance
Interior Lighting
Daylight
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EQ PREREQ 1 MINIMUM INDOOR AIR QUALITY PERFORMANCE
Changed reference standard to ASHRAE 62.1-2010
Added requirements for outside air delivery monitoring
Actual measurement on variable flow
Current switch on fixed flow
Added requirements for residential projects addressing combustion
appliances, CO monitors, and radon
LEED v4
EQp1: Minimum Indoor Air Quality
Performance
PREREQ
LEED 2009
EQ: Minimum Indoor Air Quality
Performance
PREREQ
v2009
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EQ CREDIT 1 ENHANCED INDOOR AIR QUALITY STRATEGIES
Added additional options for mathematical modeling, additional sensors, and
mixed mode systems.
Gives projects multiple options for compliance most suitable to project
LEED 2009
LEED v4
EQc1: Enhanced Indoor Air
Quality Strategies
CREDIT POINTS
2
EQ: Outdoor Air Delivery
Monitoring
CREDIT POINTS
1
EQ: Increased Ventilation
CREDIT POINTS
1
EQ: Indoor Chemical and
Pollutant Source Control
CREDIT POINTS
1
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• Option 1 for 1 point requires:
– Entryway systems
– Cross-contamination prevention (exhaust) where hazardous
gases or chemicals used or present
– Filtration (MERV 13), OA only, not return
– Calculations for natural ventilation or mixed mode
• Option 2 for 1 point requires:
– Minimize entry of pollutants into building using CFD or dispersion
analysis or wind tunnels
– Increased ventilation by 30%
– CO2 monitoring in all densely occupied spaces
– Additional source control and monitoring
– Room by room natural ventilation calculations
• Not mutually dependent
EQ CREDIT 1 ENHANCED INDOOR AIR QUALITY STRATEGIES
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EQ CREDIT 3 CONSTRUCTION INDOOR AIR QUALITY
MANAGEMENT PLAN
No substantive changes
Cannot smoke during construction
Protect materials from moisture and dirt
Must prevent infiltration of high VOC activities in renovation projects
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EQc3: Construction Indoor
Air Quality Management Plan
CREDIT
EA: Construction IAQ
Management Plan—During
Construction
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
1
v2009
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EQ CREDIT 4 INDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Added a maximum temperature limit for flush outs
Expanded the list of contaminants for which to test under Option 2
Clarified that furniture must be installed
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EQc4: Indoor Air Quality
Assessment
CREDIT
Construction IAQ Management
Plan—Before Occupancy
CREDIT POINTS POINTS
21
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EQ CREDIT 4 INDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Option 1 for 1 point:
Path 1, flushing before occupancy
Path 2, flushing during occupancy
Sets upper limit for temp and humidity during flush
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EQc4: Indoor Air Quality
Assessment
CREDIT
Construction IAQ Management
Plan—Before Occupancy
CREDIT POINTS POINTS
21
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EQ CREDIT 4 INDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Option 2 for 2 points:
Testing (rewarding with more points)
Much more detail on testing limits
Contaminant list has been expanded
Clarifies that hand-held devices are not acceptable
must be gravimetric method
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EQc4: Indoor Air Quality
Assessment
CREDIT
Construction IAQ Management
Plan—Before Occupancy
CREDIT POINTS POINTS
21
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EQ CREDIT 5 THERMAL COMFORT
Updated reference standard to ASHRAE 55-2010
Must meet both comfort AND controllability (50%)
Credit removed from Core and Shell
LEED 2009LEED v4
EQc5: Thermal Comfort
CREDIT POINTS
1EQ: Controllability of Systems
Thermal Comfort—Design
CREDIT POINTS
1
EQ: Thermal Comfort—Design
CREDIT POINTS
1
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EQ CREDIT 6 INTERIOR LIGHTING
Added requirements to address lighting quality
Option 1 (1 point): control for 90% of occupant spaces
Clearly defines 3 levels as on, off, mid-level
AND/OR
Option 2 (1 point): Lighting Quality; requires 3 of 8 features
LEED 2009 LEED v4
EQc6: Interior Lighting
CREDIT
EQ: Controllability of Systems-
Lighting
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
2
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EQ CREDIT 7 DAYLIGHT
Increased weighting
Removed prescriptive option
Added option for spatial daylight autonomy
Changed units from footcandles to lux
Added a timing requirement to measurement option
LEED v4
EQc7: Daylight
CREDIT
LEED 2009
EQ: Daylight and Views –
Daylight
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
3
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EQ CREDIT 8 QUALITY VIEWS
Added requirement for quality view, defined by the
LEED 2009 exemplary performance criteria
Much more definition, angles, etc.
Must be clear viewUno frits, fibers, patterns, or tints
Must include objects 25 feet away, flora, fauna, sky, and movement!
Interior atria may be used for 30% of area
LEED v4
EQc8: Quality Views
CREDIT
LEED 2009
EQ: Daylight and Views –
Quality Views
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
1
v2009
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EQ CREDIT 9 ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE
New credit except in Schools and Healthcare
Added requirements for room noise levels, speech privacy and
sound isolation, reverberation time, and paging, masking, and
sound reinforcement systems
LEED v4
EQc9: Acoustic Performance
(Except: CS, Retail)
CREDIT
LEED 2009
EQ: Acoustic Performance
(Schools)
CREDIT POINTS
1
POINTS
1
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Innovation Regional Priority
Innovation Possible Points: 6
Credit 1 5
Credit 2 1
Innovation
LEED Accredited Professional
Regional Priority Possible Points: 4
Credit 1 Regional Priority: Specific Credit 1
Credit 2 Regional Priority: Specific Credit 1
Credit 3 Regional Priority: Specific Credit 1
Credit 4 Regional Priority: Specific Credit 1
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Innovation
• One point reserved for true innovation
• One point reserved for Pilot Credit
– Intended to be testing next versions
• Remaining three points can be:
– Up to 3 more true innovations
– Up to 3 more Pilot Credits
– Up to 2 exemplary performance
• IDc2 requires LEED AP with specialty
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Regional Priority
• Every chapter in identified RP credits
• Award is similar to v2009
• Credits by GPS coordinates, not zip code!
• Zones are being created by chapters
– Iowa is one zone
– Not enough “definition” to warrant more
– Understand many states are similar
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Regional Priority
Iowa - NC
• LTc4 – Surrounding Density
– Option 1, 2 points
• SSc2 – Protect/Restore Habitat
– Option 1, On site restoration
• SSc4 – Rainwater Management
– Option 2, Natural Land Conditions
• EAc2 – Optimize Energy Performance
– 20% threshold, 8 points
• EAc5 – Renewable Energy
– 1% threshold, 1 point
• MRc3 – Responsible Resourcing
– Option 2, Leadership
Illinois - NC
• LTc3 – High Priority Site
– Option 2, Priority Designation
• SSc2 – Protect/Restore Habitat
– Option 1, On site restoration
• SSc4 – Rainwater Management
– Option 2, Natural Land Conditions
• EAc3 – Advanced Energy Metering
• MRc1 – Building Life Cycle Impact Reduction
– Option 4, Whole Building Analysis
• EQc1 – Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies
– Option 2, Exterior Prevention, CO2, increased ventilation
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What about other states?
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» Six public comment periods with over 23,000 comments
» Passed ballot in June 2013 with 86% approval
» Extended registration for LEED 2009 until June 2015
» Engaged over 100 project teams in LEED v4 beta test
» Program launched at Greenbuild in November 2013
LEED v4: CURRENT STATUS
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Implementation?
• KJWW status…
– 112 projects certified
• 12 Platinum
• 29 are v2009
– 130 more seeking
• 28 are still viable v2.2 projects
– Just a few v4 projects at this time
• Need to keep track of v2.2, v2009, and v4 all
at the same time!
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www.usgbc.org/leedv4
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IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE
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REFERENCE GUIDE
LAYOUT
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REFERENCE GUIDE
DELIVERY
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LEED CREDIT LIBRARY
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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SELF REPORTING GBCI CREDIT
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