Pearl Building Rating System - Estidama

Awarding Credit
Points
Credit
Submission:
Design Rating
Credit
Submission:
Construction
Rating
CREDIT POINTS REQUIREMENTS
6
(maximum)
4
2
6
(maximum)
4
2
Design Rating
Prepare a Habitat Creation or Restoration Strategy; and
Allocate an on-site or off-site habitat creation or restoration site
of minimum areas as defined above.
Demonstrate that through collaboration, off-site ecological
corridors have been designed to link similar habitat types.
Construction Rating
Demonstrate on-site or off-site habitat creation or restoration
equivalent the Credit Requirements.
Demonstrate that through collaboration, off-site ecological
corridors have been created to link similar habitat types.
For Habitat Creation and/ or Restoration Credits:
� Habitat Creation or Restoration Strategy, including:
� calculations;
� photographs and maps illustrating habitat creation areas or pre-existing natural
resource areas requiring restoration;
� plant palette highlighting the proposed species;
� methodology for habitat creation or restoration of functional habitat;
� KPIs for assuring performance through monitoring and management; and
� maps illustrating any connections between habitats.
For Ecological Corridors Credits:
� Ecological/ landscape report and plant palette describing the design of the
ecological corridors and proposed species off-site, with details of native and
adaptive plant species;
� Drawings highlighting the location and area coverage of the off-site ecological
corridors and habitat areas connected by the corridors, as appropriate;
� Confirmation of the agreement with neighboring land owner to reserve and
permanently protect land and create ecological corridors; and
� Details of monitoring and management requirements for minimum 10 years for
ecological corridors (to be incorporated into NS-R3).
For Habitat Creation and/ or Restoration Credits:
� Plans, narrative and photographic evidence of implementation of Habitat Creation
or Restoration Strategy; and
� Documentation of any failures identified during construction and proposed
rectification strategies of habitat creation/ restoration.
For Ecological Corridors Credits:
� Photographs and as built landscape drawings clearly indicating the ecological
corridors and planted species.
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