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Identifying the Baseline Areas

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Maya Karkour  on 

Dear All, I want to double check on how to allocate the Baseline areas for my project. My proposed project has 100 sq.m of trees, 300 sq.m of shrubs, and only 5 sq.m of turf grass. Shall I alloc

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Wed Jul 16, 2014, 11:05 am

Sample download

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Yueling Chen  on 

I just purchase a premium membership, but i can't download the word & excel version sample in Documentation toolkit, like Sample Narrative for WEC1-Option 1, Option2 Path1 & Path 2 in WE C1

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Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:52 pm

Evapotranspiration rate units?

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Erin Holdenried  on 

What is the evapotranspiration rate unit? Inches per day?

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Sat May 27, 2017, 2:32 am

Landscaping in phases

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Alexia Anastassiadis  on 

Hello everyone, I'm working on a project that contains a very large green area. The project will not have irrigation of any kind, since the project is situated in a temperate-humid region.

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Fri Mar 7, 2014, 10:14 pm

5% including footprint?

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Ryan McEvoy  on 

At least 5% of the site area must have landscaping to qualify for the credit - does this include the building footprint or can the footprint be excluded? Thank you.

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Tue Aug 5, 2014, 7:35 am

Greenroof, water retention with perlite

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  FABIO VIERO  on 

I was wondering if anyone had already used a roof garden including the perlite. Perlite is a volcanic rock effusive varying in color between gray and pink, whose chemical composition is similar to

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Mon Jul 27, 2015, 9:20 pm

Open-grid paving

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Paula Rantanen  on 

Does anyone know if open-grid paving is qualified as vegetated area?

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Wed Mar 14, 2012, 3:58 pm

Measuring the landscaped area

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Alicia Villanueva  on 

We are trying to reach the 5% landscaped area in a project. The question is: how do we measure it? The shaded area or the tree well area? Thank you!

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Fri Jan 11, 2013, 7:49 pm

Water requirements much higher in LEED

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Mike D  on 

The LEED form gives a certain amount of water based on the calculations.

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Sun Nov 3, 2013, 6:49 pm

Artificial Turf

posted by  Alexis Voeltner  on 
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Wed Jun 23, 2010, 4:55 am