Licensed Professional Exemption
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I am setting up credits for a newly registered LEED for Schools 2009 project. LEED OnLine credit pages have a tab labeled "Licensed Professional Exemptions". What is this for? All of the credits I have looked at thus far yield the follow response when I pick this tab: "There are no Licensed Professional Exemptions available for this credit. "
Are there credits for which a licensed professional earns special exemptions? Possibly this is a future feature??
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SSp1 - Licensed Professional Exemption Tab
Credit SSp1 includes a LPE Option for a licensed civil engineer. Can anyone assist us in changing the signature? Once we checked the box it was grayed out and became read-only.
Sandra, contact GBCI for help with this.
Licensed Professional Exemption
Hi James
with regards to Licensed Professional Exemption
please find the details at the bottom of the page in the following link
https://www.leedonline.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/guid/30ad...
Regards
LEED NC 2009
Does the LPE only apply to LEED for existing Buildings or does this exemption work for LEED for new construction and major renovations?
LPE does apply to LEED for New Construction. LEED Online version 3 has a table highlighting the applicable credits though it looks like only EAp2 and EQc5 apply. Not sure of the easiest way to find the table but I entered a credit on the scorecard and clicked on LPE. After that I followed a link to additional information on the LPE which included this table.
You can find the list of forms with LPEs in LEED Online v3. When you log in, click "Help" on the top, then click on the left sidebar "Navigating Projects in LOv3" > "During: Tools & Resources > "Licensed Professional Exemptions (LPE)" and the link to the Table of Credits with LPE is provided. It looks like it's a little out of date because I think you can use an LPE for the Registered Architect on SSc7.1 in LEED NC 2009, but that is not mentioned in the table.
Licensed Professional Exemption (LPE) - outside of USA
Is it possible to use the LPE streamline path from a project or licensed professionals outside of the United States?
In a USGBC Licensed Professional Exemption Form dated 2008 (http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=4076) State of registration is required - indicating that this can only be used within the US.
Has this changed or is there any more up to date info on this?
At this point, USGBC is only accepting the LPE form from US registered
professionals.
Any updates on this? Are they allowing professional designations from other countries yet?
Hello. I am inquiring also if there is any update on allowing professional designations from other countries to be used yet. Or are things the same? Amy chance of change in the near future?
Licensed Professional Exemption (LPE)
The Licensed Professional Exemption is basically a streamlined documentation path that is available for certain credits, particularly design-oriented credits where a licensed professional such as a Landscape Architect or a P.E. would be in a position to judge whether the project is compliance. In most credits this option is not available due to the nature of the credit, e.g. an MR credit that requires actual tracking of purchases.
It basically involves substituting the signature of a professional for some portion of the usual documentation. This is shown in LEED Online in the relevant credits.
Unfortunately, USGBC or GBCI have not released much information on the LPE path, such as a list of the credits where it's an option, and general guidance on using the exemption. There is a small amount of info on it in the LEED Reference Guide.
The benefit of the LPE path is obvious—efficiency. The downside is that in order to feel confidence signing off on a credit, the professional may need to develop all the documentation that LEED would require, anyway, and instead of putting their professional authority on the line, they might as well simply submit the documentation.
I've attempted to use the LPE for this credit as the template offers it for this credit, but when I provide my signature after having uploaded a roof plan and then attempt to close-out the template (mark it complete)I receive a notification that the documentation is not yet complete...so I really don't see the benefit of the LPE if you still need to provide all the documention. I am leaning toward taking Tristan's advice above and just submitting the documentation anyway instead of running the risk otherwise.
IF the LEED Consultant is also a registered architect, but there is another registered architect who is the architect of record, can the LEED Consultant sign off as the LPE? or does this have to be the architect of record? thanks
I believe the intent is for the project architect to sign off as the LPE since they were in fact the licensed professional responsible for those aspects of the job.
Tristan, it's been a few months since you posted your response re. the USGBC accepting LPEs outside the U.S. Do you know if this is still the case? If so, it will put to rest my researching this possibility for SSp1 on a project in Taiwan.
LPEs are only available to US licensed professionals. A professional with a US license may use claim an exemption on an international project. Due to the complexity of evaluating the varied license requirements oin other countries, we do not have plans to expand LPEs to international licenses at this time.
As Kimberly mentioned, more information on LPEs is available in the Help section of LEED Online: Navigating Projects in LOv3 > During: Tools & Resources > Licensed Professional Exemptions.
We are currently working on an updated table of available LPEs.
Courtney, thanks much for the update. We're moving on without the LPE on this project, as the Civil apparently received his license outside the U.S.
Note, we recently published an updated matrix of linkages across credits. The first tab ("overall") of this document lists LPEs and required signatories as well as other potentially helpful details.
Matrices for all rating systems except ND can be found here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9300
The ND rating system matrix can be found here: https://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=9301
We hope you find this resource helpful. If you find any discrepancies, please let us know via the "feedback" button in LEED Online.
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