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Robin E. Snyder
Senior Member
Username: robin
Post Number: 284
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 05:16 pm: |    |
I have a LEED consultant who sent me a spreadsheet of LEED points and their descriptions that I am responsible for. Then, she told me to log onto LEEDonline, go to the scorecard tab and access the forms that need to be filled out.
Besides the obvious that they are "credits" not "points" and that I am not "responsible" for any credits, have any of you, as specification writers, had to fill out forms related to the LEED process? I have worked on over 30 LEED projects, and have never been responsible for going online and filling out forms. |
Chris Sawyer, CCS LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: csawyer
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 08:06 pm: | |
Yes - as well as the specification writer, I am also the LEED administrator for several of my projects. I coordinate the LEED process as well as complete template requirements.
Chris Sawyer CCS LEED AP |
Robin E. Snyder
Senior Member
Username: robin
Post Number: 285
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 10:43 am: | |
Thanks Chris, but I was curious primarily about spec writers who are independent consultants, hired as spec writers, with a separate LEED AP acting as the LEED consultant. If you are the LEED administrator, of course you would be completing the templates.
Any independents out there have this come up? |
Ronald L. Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: specman
Post Number: 817
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 10:44 am: | |
I've never had to do this. In my opinion, it sounds like the LEED consultant is trying to unload some of their responsibility onto you.
Unless this responsibility was clearly outlined in your proposal or agreement with your client, I would treat it as an additional service.
Ron Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP
www.specsandcodes.com |
Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap
Senior Member
Username: lgoodrob
Post Number: 50
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 12:04 pm: | |
Our independent spec shop does not submit information for credit approval. We recommend a LEED consultant, who we work with often, for firms who do not want to do it themselves. Why would you hire a LEED consultant, if they aren't going to collect and submit the paperwork? |
J. Peter Jordan
Senior Member
Username: jpjordan
Post Number: 378
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009 - 06:11 pm: | |
Another "green leech" who doesn't understand construction documents or construction process and therefore wants irrelevant documentation.
Just out of curiosity, what credits did this person assign you responsibility for? |
Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS
Senior Member
Username: awhitacre
Post Number: 927
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 05:56 pm: | |
ditto with answers above. if there is a sustainability consultant, they are trying to pass off part of their job to you.
you can slyly get around this by informing your client that this will be an extra service. |
Joel McKellar, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: joelmckellar
Post Number: 47
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 10:46 am: | |
This does sound a little strange, as I can't really think of anything that a spec writer would be directly responsible for in any LEED system?
On the other hand, I always generally assign documentation to the person doing the work associated with it. It seems inefficient to have one person act as a conduit when everyone can simply load LEED-online themselves. Are you really saving time forwarding all the information to a consultant compared to simply loading the same info online?
I'm not an independent LEED consultant, but work for an architecture firm who handles the LEED management in-house. I'm really curious to know specifically what this consultant wanted you to load? |
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