Glossary

A streamlining method. USGBC offers this method only for a few select LEED credits that are often implemented and the results tracked for groups of buildings, i.e., the LEED-EB materials purchasing credits. The volume customer reports the sustainable performance for the whole group or for defined sub-groups, along with its method of verifying that the performance of each building within the group is similar (though not necessarily identical) to that of the group as a whole. Similar performance across the buildings is required; this is NOT intended as a method of simply averaging widely different performance within the group.

A credit-level QC planQuality Control Plan: Portfolio-level or schema-level The general methods the volume review customer uses to ensure that the sustainable intent for its LEED projects becomes reality, ensuring that LEED requirements have been incorporated into its standard building processes. This level of the QC Plan describes generic organization-level checking and verification processes used for any building design, construction, or operational settings and across multiple types of building project issues and technical goals. Credit-level Builds on and supplements the generic QC Plan by providing detailed, credit-specific methods tailored to and suitable for each specific type of building process (i.e., plan review, commissioning, field inspections, periodic preventive maintenance, review of automation trend logs, etc.). Describes all aspects of the customer's internal verification processes: who, what, when, where, how, to what extent. This level of QC Plan detail is required for all prototyped or streamlined credits (except for some streamlined approaches in the LEED-EB setting). and Education plan are required for this method.