Video: LEED Energy Reporting Made Easy
Video: LEED Energy Reporting Made Easy
Fulfilling LEED-2009 MPR #6
When the Minimum Program Requirements (MPRs) were introduced in 2009, it quickly became clear that MPR #6 would be perhaps the most controversial and the most difficult to comply with. Under the requirements of MPR #6, certified LEED-2009 projects are committed to sharing whole-building energy and water usage data.
Many projects have had questions about how to comply (and if they really have to!), and USGBC has taken time to build out its support for this requirement. Now, the support is there, and LEEDuser is here to help answer your questions with this free video.
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USGBC's MPR #6 expert answers your questions
LEEDuser is pleased to offer this presentation by Lauren Riggs, manager of LEED performance at USGBC. This video covers the following topics:
- The three options for BD&C projects to comply with MPR #6
- The two options for LEED-CI projects to comply
- Tools under development to support performance tracking
- The role of the MPRs in achieving LEED certification—or not
- Connections to EAc5: Measurement & Verification
- The Building Performance Partnership (BPP) and its role in MPR #6
MPR #6 Frequently Asked Questions
The video covers some of the common problems that project teams face in earning MPR #6, among them:
- Can I get an exemption?
- How will USGBC use our data?
- Will my project be decertified if it performs poorly?
- My project is outside the U.S. Can I use Portfolio Manager?
- How often should I record energy and water data?
- When do I have to start reporting data?
Lauren shares specific to-do's, case studies, and tips you can use to make this entire process easier for your project team.
About the presenters
Lauren Riggs – USGBC
Lauren Riggs, Manager of LEED Performance at USGBC is responsible for the management of the building performance programs central to LEED. These programs include Building Performance Partnership, Portfolio Partners Program and LEED Recertification. Additionally, Lauren developed and maintains the LEED Online Minimum Program Requirement #6 documentation requirements. Her work emphasizes the imperative linkages between the existing buildings certification process and requirements and ongoing tracking of building performance.
Tristan Roberts – LEEDuser
The webinar will be moderated by Tristan Roberts, editor of LEEDuser.com, a website that provides how-to resources for LEED certification teams. Tristan is also Editorial Director for BuildingGreen, publishers of LEEDuser as well as Environmental Building News and GreenSpec.
4 Comments
MPR 6 Compliance through a different Portfolio manager
In regards to what was briefly discussed in the Q&A portion, will LEED accept access to a different portfolio manager instead of the Energy Star Portfolio Manager?
The project I am working on has its own software system that will meter and monitor the projects water and energy usage. Its system works quite similarly to the Energy Star manager, and the software is capable of creating a user account for LEED performance team to give them access to all the data, it would just be on their system instead of the Energy Star system. Would grating LEED access to the buildings software system be considered as compliance to MPR6?
If so which option should we select on the PIf1? Would this path be considered option 1 or 3?
I tried to email this question to leedperformance@usgbc.org but havent heard anything back yet. Hoping someone else has run into a similar situation or has the answer to this question.
let the Q&A begin
We at LEEDuser are thrilled to be offering this webcast with Lauren from USGBC.
I'd like to open this discussion forum up to any questions that you have on MPR #6. Any questions that you post here, we'll give top priority to answering during the Q&A portion of the webcast.
Tristan
Will a link to the slides used in the presentation be provided? I had technical difficulties and could not attend the entire webinar. Please advise.
The recording of this session is now posted above.
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