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42 buildingoperatingmanagement SEPTEMBER 2011 Organizations that have made a commitment to LEED are scaling up. No longer is there just one building that is the showcase game-changer. “One of the reasons we started to work on a systematic campus approach is that lots of organizations that have made a commitment to LEED are scaling up,” says Melissa Gallagher-Rogers, a LEED director with USGBC, who is leading efforts to create guidance for campus certifications. “There’s no longer just one showcase building. They want EBOM certification on as many buildings as possible.” But to decide where campuswide performance and documentation could be helpful to projects and still maintain the integrity of the EB rating system, Gallagher-Rogers and her team had to first decide what things simply had to stay the same. One thing that has to stay the same, regardless of whether the focus is on individual buildings or an entire campus: The driving principle behind LEED- EBOM remains performance at the building level. “We still certify individual projects, but we look at the factors that lend holistically to the campus,” says Gallagher-Rogers. “For EBOM, that’s anything that is policy-based.” Although certifying campuses as a whole, or groups of buildings on a campus, may be a future goal, even that variation on LEED-EBOM will likely be predicated on understanding building-level performance for a core subset of prerequisites and credits. USGBC’s first step towards formally accommodating campuses, the 2010 LEED Application Guide for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects (AGMBC), is consistent with that guiding principle. The AGMBC clearly signals USGBC’s interest in testing the waters of campuswide credit compliance, but in a carefully measured and limited scope. The AGMBC introduces a platform called the “master site,” by which campuses can submit a set of credits through a separate review process. The idea is to get pre-approval for all campus projects that later pursue LEED-EBOM certification. Credits identified for potential campuswide documentation, via the ”master site” process, can be categorized in three general groups: geography credits, policy credits and systems credits. • Geography Credits. The term ”master site” sends an accurate signal as to the ease with which credits based on the physical geography and functional infrastructure of a campus can be documented on a campuswide basis. When credit article continued on pg. 46 NEXT GENERATION GREEN RESTROOM DESIGN (Featured USGBC CEU Course @ www.usgbc.org/virtualtour) TIME TO THROW IN THE TOWEL ® Excel Dryer inc. • 1.800.255.9235 • www.exceldryer.com ▲ FREE INFO: Circle 425
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