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How does LEED affect your expenses?
This credit involves a review and analysis of your building’s operational expenses. The goal is to better understand the financial impact on overall operating costs of improvements made during the LEED performance period.
It’s not intended to compare buildings to one another, or to demonstrate that your LEED investments generated specific paybacks. It’s simply valuable for you to understand how your building performs over time. Internal consistency with your accounting methods is more important than whether you categorize expenses in the same way other projects do.
The credit is primarily an accounting exercise—you’ll collect historical financial data detailing the year-to-year expenses for cleaning services, building repair and maintenance, utility bills, and roads...
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Got the gist of the LEED credit but not sure how to actually achieve it? LEEDuser gives step-by-step help. Members get:
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Need to check up on the exact LEED credit language from the LEED Rating System on the fly? LEEDuser includes the verbatim language. Members get:
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Documentation Toolkit
In the end, LEED is all about documentation. LEEDuser’s Documentation Toolkit saves you time and helps you avoid mistakes with:
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2 Comments
LEED Certification
This is more of a question, I currently work in a 395,000 sq ft. manufacturing facility in Ava, Missouri within Emerson Climate Technologies. Our shortime goal is to apply for LEED certification.
I was curious if there were other manufacturing facilities in this area, this area meaning Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, or would you have a little more detailed literature on what it takes to become LEED certified.
Tristan Roberts replied Editor – LEEDuser, BuildingGreen, LLC Mar 24 2010
Patrick, I don't know of any such facilities offhand but you might want to peruse USGBC's LEED certified project list.
Regarding what it takes to become LEED-certified, that's what this site is all about. We walk you through each credit—what the requirements are, what the common pitfalls are, and how to maximize your performance. We provide hundreds of sample documents. I recommend becoming a LEEDuser member!
As far as the technical details of getting certiifed, LEED Online is your first stop to register a project.
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