Dears, In our recent projects we are having some doubts about the “Building Footprint” definition.

The Project is composed of 2 separate buildings connected together with 2 floors of underground garage and 8 floors of skyway.

Our project is an office tower connected to a large 4 level car park with a public plaza on top and retail at the perimeter on ground level.

Can PV panels be installed among a green roof. Whats the official line LEED takes with this.

Can anyone clarify how we can achieve SSc5.1 through the use of off-site native vegetation? Do we use an alternative compliance approach and submit forms from LEED EBOM for this same credit?

I'm working on a project in Sao Paulo, Brazil and our project will implement a green area (1506.95 sf) outside our leed project boundary.

One of our warehouse projects is the fifth phase of an existing development.

Our project has a tunnel that is totally below grade. Our initial thought is to exclude the tunnel from the building footprint, as that does not get counted in the site open area calculations.

We are planning to donate offsite land to a land trust to gain earn this credit. This land will be equal to more than 75% of the previously developed area (including the building footprint).