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Land trust
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Gabriela Hernández Castillo on
Our project has very limited landscape options and I just found out about the offsite land donation. We are by no means familiar with the Land trust nor the EPA level III ecoregion.
Open bottom planters
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer on
Reading the missing manuals I saw that planters can contribute to credit compliance as long as they are open bottom. By language barriers we do not fully understand the difference betweet an open
project footprint definiton
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by tanner white on
I have a building with 3 foot overhangs around it.
Vegetated area requirement
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by JOHN BURNETT on
Hello, I am working on a project in China. According to local standards, only area with 600mm (approx.
Demonstration that plants are native or adapted
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by David Lazaro on
Hello, We are encountering some problems as to deciding which vegetation species can be counted as adapted. In a Mediterranean country, there are many plants that grow well in our city.
Land Trusts and Land Use Restriction Agreements
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Colin Twohig on
We have a project that is going for LEED Core and Sheel v2009 certification in a densely populated urban area and needs to pursue some form of contractual interaction with a land trust in order to
Greenfield Site
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Maya Karkour on
Hello, Our project is a greenfield site (agricultural land) in a sub-urban area, we have a building footprint taking ~all the site, so we didn’t protect any land on site but we didn’t disturb the u
Incorporating LEED interpretation to SSc5.1
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Phil Meyer on
Hi all, I have a question regarding a recent LEED interpretation citing SSc5.1.
Green Walls
CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitatposted by Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira on
Hi all! Can I get any benefit from having green walls in my project, for the purpose of this credit? P.S: It is a Previously Developed Area.