Team Member Responsible for Uploading Credit Documentation to Leed Online Website

Congratulations on your conclusion to pursue LEED certification for your projection!

You're on your way to increasing the value and ecology integrity of your project. This guide will pb you lot through the process.

LEED certification involves four main steps:

1. Register your project by completing key forms and submitting payment.
2. Apply for LEED certification by submitting your completed certification application through LEED Online and paying a certification review fee.
3. Review. Your LEED application is reviewed by GBCI.
4. Certify. Receive the certification decision. If you've earned LEED certification: congratulations!

If y'all need help at any time, please call or email us.

Note: Are you working on projects inside the LEED Volume Program? Check out our LEED Volume Program supplement, which works in conjunction with this guide to give you a full motion picture of the LEED Volume Program.

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Annals

Registration is an of import pace in the LEED certification process, signifying your intent to pursue LEED certification.

Earlier y'all begin, you'll desire to make certain that your project meets all of the LEED Minimum Programme Requirements, the minimum characteristics that make a project appropriate for pursuing LEED.
Building projects pursuing LEED 2009 certification must:

• Comply with environmental laws
• Be a complete, permanent building
• Use a reasonable site boundary
• Comply with minimum floor area requirements
• Comply with minimum occupancy requirements
• Commit to sharing whole-edifice energy and h2o usage data
• Comply with a minimum edifice area to site area ratio

Building projects pursuing LEED v4 certification must:

• Be in a permanent location on existing state
• Use reasonable LEED boundaries
• Comply with project size requirements

Visit the LEED Credit Library to read the specifics on Minimum Programme Requirements. LEED 2009 projects should besides read the Supplemental Guidance to the Minimum Program Requirements.

Next up: select the appropriate LEED rating system for your project using our guidance for LEED 2009 or LEED v4.

The content in this guide applies to all LEED 2009 and LEED v4 commercial rating systems. For guidance on LEED Homes and Midrise certification, visit the Guide to Certification: Homes.

• LEED for Building Blueprint and Structure (LEED BD+C) (please annotation that in that location is a separate guide for Homes and Mid-Rise rating systems)
• LEED for Interior Design and Construction (LEED ID+C)
• LEED for Operations and Maintenance (LEED O+M)

Now, onward to registration: visit LEED Online, the online portal through which you will submit your application for certification, as well as admission a diversity of tools and resources, provide the registration information related to your project, submit payment and sign the certification agreement (the projection possessor must do this last one). Once you've finished, your project application will be attainable in LEED Online.

From here, y'all tin can assemble your projection squad and the documentation process begins!

Project Team Roles

Individuals on your project team will be chosen on to fill sure roles throughout the LEED certification process. Here's a rundown of who'southward who and then you tin can select your team wisely:

Owner: The owner of the projection is the person (or entity) who has the authority to hold and control the real and personal property associated with your project, and accepts (or authorizes the acceptance of) the certification agreement. While there may be multiple owners for a particular project (if and so, please submit a Confirmation of Primary Owner's Authority Form), we ask that you identify a single individual to administer the certification process. Big takeaway: the owner has ultimate command over the LEED certification awarding, pregnant that the Green Building Certification Establish (GBCI: the arrangement responsible for administering LEED certification) will respond to the possessor regarding the assistants of the project over whatsoever other fellow member of the project team.

Agent: The agent is the person (or entity) who is granted actual authority past the possessor to register the project and accept the certification agreement. If yous are using this choice, remember to upload a signed Confirmation of Agent's Potency Grade.

Project Administrator: This team member acts as a project manager, overseeing the LEED projection as well as which project team members are responsible for sure tasks, credits or prerequisites. The project ambassador plays a key quality function by checking that the LEED submission is complete and accurate before submitting the projection to GBCI for review, and accepting the review results once the review is consummate. Note: the private who initially registers the project volition automatically exist granted the role of the project ambassador, but the possessor may transfer this role to another team member at whatever fourth dimension.

Of import considerations

Deadline for registration
In order to optimize an integrated design process, which is a core part of LEED, we encourage you to register as early as possible – ideally, during the blueprint phase for LEED BD+C and LEED ID+C rating systems, and early on in the planning and facility cess phase for LEED O+Chiliad projects. View the LEED registration shut and certification close deadlines.

Recertification (LEED O+One thousand only)
If your projection has already been certified nether LEED O+Thousand, in social club for your certification to remain current, we crave yous to recertify your projection within five years of the previous certification. Your project is eligible for recertification after 12 months and every 12 months thereafter, and we encourage you to register for recertification as soon as possible. For more information, view the Recertification Guidance.

Campus projects
If you are planning to bring more than i building located on a single shared site and nether the control of a unmarried entity (for case, a corporate or educational campus, government installation or commercial development) through certification, you lot may register your project as a campus or grouping project to streamline the documentation you'll need to submit for review. Please note, still, that individual building registration and certification fees apply to campus and group projects. Depending on the campus arroyo you select, you will pursue a slightly modified registration procedure, as compared to i-off project registration.

Campus credit approach: This approach enables you to streamline the documentation procedure by earning "campus credits" – prerequisites and credits that can be applied to all LEED projects on the chief site. You will need to annals a "master site," which includes a general narrative of the overall campus projects and a schematic site program, in add-on to registering each individual project on the site.

Campus group projection approach: In this approach, you'll register the group of projects on the site as a single LEED projection that will then receive a unmarried LEED rating and certification. To be eligible for this approach, LEED BD+C and LEED ID+C projects must exist nether the same construction contract and be constructed at the same time, and LEED O+M projects must be nether the same ownership and management, share the same performance flow and have substantially similar space types. For this approach, your team's campus project documentation must demonstrate that the group of projects collectively meets the credit requirements using a "group credit." You may use a campus group project certification independently or in combination with campus credits documented under a master site review, through the campus credit arroyo above.

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Utilise

Now comes the fun role: you're ready to collect and submit the appropriate documentation via LEED Online so that GBCI may review your projection. Working with your project team, you lot will identify LEED credits to pursue and assign them to project squad members. Your team will then collect data, perform calculations and assay, and prepare documentation demonstrating your accomplishment of the prerequisites and your selected credits.

In one case your awarding is prepared, upload your completed materials into LEED Online and make sure to perform a rigorous quality bank check of your entire application earlier submitting for review. Nosotros propose that you open up each form and check that yous have included all required data, and open up each file upload to verify that you have uploaded the correct document. Cross-cheque credits and prerequisites to brand sure that you lot take reported common data points, such as gross square footage, occupancy and total material cost consistently. Want more tips? Hither are some characteristics common amongst high quality submissions:

• Relevant prerequisite/credit information is clearly highlighted within the submission
• File attachments are clearly and intuitively labeled
• But required documentation is submitted (if only a few pages are needed to provide the required credit/prerequisite data, no need to submit more!)
• Concise narratives are used to draw project-specific circumstances (these are really helpful for the GBCI reviewer)

All finished? Set, set, submit! Don't forget to pay your certification review fee - and remember, your review will commence in one case your payment has cleared our system.

Important considerations

LEED O+M projects
Y'all may choose to extend the performance period for whatsoever prerequisite or credit to a maximum of 24 months preceding your certification awarding, in case you need more than time to constitute performance. All performance periods must overlap and come up to a conclusion within one month of each other. Please exist sure to submit your completed application for review within 60 days of the decision of the performance catamenia.

The recertification functioning period includes the unabridged time since the previous certification and must be at to the lowest degree a twelvemonth in length, just may exist up to five years in length. You lot'll demand to rails and record edifice performance data throughout the entire recertification operation period.

Campus Projects

Campus credit approach: If your squad is pursuing this approach, exist certain to certificate all campus credit information within the master site.

Campus group project approach: For this approach, your squad's group project documentation must demonstrate that the grouping of projects collectively meets the credit requirements using a "group credit." You may utilise our group projection certification independently or in combination with campus credits documented under a primary site review, through the campus credit approach above.

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Review

After you've submitted your application and paid the review fee, GBCI will carry a thorough technical review. But don't kick back nevertheless – you'll need to be an agile participant throughout the process.

While the blazon of review you'll undergo volition vary depending on the specific needs of your project and the rating system under which you are certifying (more on that below), the process is the aforementioned:

Function 1: Preliminary Review

• You volition beginning submit your application for a preliminary review. GBCI will check your application for abyss and compliance with the selected rating system and attempted credits.
• GBCI will respond with its preliminary review within xx-25 business days, indicating which prerequisites and credits are anticipated to be awarded during final review, pending farther data or denied.
• Your team tin can accept the preliminary review results as final if you are satisfied, submit new or revised documentation, or attempt additional credits earlier submitting for concluding review.

Part 2: Last Review (optional)

• The final review stage allows you to submit supplementary information or amend the application. GBCI suggests you submit these clarifications inside 25 business days afterwards receiving the preliminary review results. GBCI will then review revised or newly submitted prerequisites and credits, and reconsider any anticipated credits or prerequisites for which data has changed since the render of the preliminary review.
• GBCI will respond with a terminal LEED certification review report within xx-25 business days, marking prerequisites and attempted credits as either awarded or denied.
• Like the preliminary review, you lot can either take the review results as final, or revise your application and resubmit, this time as an appeal.

Office 3: Appeal Review (optional, appeal fees apply)

• The appeal review stage provides i additional round of review and allows you to submit supplementary information, ameliorate the awarding or add new credits not previously attempted. GBCI will review the pending or newly submitted prerequisites and credits, and reconsider any predictable credits or prerequisites for which data has changed since the render of the final review. The fee associated with appeals varies depending on the level of complexity of the credits or prerequisites involved in the appeal.
• GBCI will answer with an appeal LEED certification review report within 20-25 business days, marking prerequisites and attempted credits as either awarded or denied.
• Like the final review, yous can either have the appeal review results as final, or submit a further appeal. At that place is no cap on the number of appeals you may submit.

Standard review (all rating systems)

Through the standard review path, yous will submit your unabridged application (all credits and prerequisites) once yous've completed your project.

Separate review (LEED BD+C and LEED ID+C rating systems)

You may choose to pursue split review if you are certifying under a design and construction rating system. To do this, you'll submit part of your application at the conclusion of your projection's design phase (design credits and prerequisites), and the rest at the decision of construction (construction credits and prerequisites), completing two rounds of reviews. The carve up review is designed to help your squad decide if your project is on track to achieve LEED certification at its preferred level. Please note that simply credits and prerequisites identified as design credits can be submitted during the design review, and that your application must be submitted before your project is substantially completed.

Precertification review (LEED for BD+C: Cadre & Shell projects but)

This is an optional review pathway available for a fee for LEED BD+C: Core & Shell projects that is focused on your intended pattern and construction strategies. We offer precertification to assistance your project concenter tenants and assistance you determine which credits and prerequisites your project is likely to reach during the full review.

Expedited review

In a time crunch? Contact GBCI at to the lowest degree five business days (please let longer if you are paying by check) prior to submitting an awarding to request an expedited review to cut your review time in half (reduced from 20-25 business days to10-12 business days per review phase). Please note that at that place is an additional charge for this service, and GBCI's ability to fulfill your request depends on their current review chapters. If GBCI can accommodate your request, they will confirm availability and provide a custom review schedule for your project.

Submitting an inquiry

Having difficulty fulfilling a rating system prerequisite or credit? Accept you idea of an alternative way to interpret a credit or path to fulfill it? Nosotros've established inquiries so that you tin can gain clarification before yous annals your project or as yous're working through your LEED application. All inquiries are filed through LEED Online (unless you haven't registered nonetheless – in which case, please accomplish out to GBCI) and should accost simply one credit or prerequisite. Here are your options:

Credit Interpretation Ruling (CIR): A CIR allows you to obtain technical guidance related to a detail credit or facet of the LEED rating arrangement. Our review team will let you know if your interpretation of a particular credit or prerequisite is consequent with published rating system requirements. When it comes fourth dimension to submit your application for review, you will need to provide documentation demonstrating fulfillment of the CIR and indicate the approved CIR within your application for certification. You may file an entreatment if you are not satisfied with the upshot of your CIR using the process above. Keep in mind, also, that CIRs are not precedent setting; your project team can only utilize the ruling for the projection under which the CIR was submitted.

LEED Interpretation:Administered by USGBC, LEED Interpretations focus on the development of the LEED rating system and are published periodically in the course of official addenda. They are developed through a deliberative procedure involving LEED committees and are not conducted within the standard 20-25 concern day timelines. Like Project CIRs, LEED Interpretations provide answers to technical inquiries about applying LEED in situations non already addressed by the rating systems, reference guides and MPRs. They differ from Project CIRs in that, as USGBC issued addenda, these rulings are precedent-setting and applicable to all projects registered in the futurity. As in the case with all addenda, projects registered before a LEED Estimation is published may voluntarily elect to follow these revisions. You can access published LEED Interpretations online in our searchable addenda database.

Important considerations

Deadline for submitting for review

For LEED BD+C and LEED ID+C rating systems, you will need to submit for your construction stage review (preliminary standard review or preliminary construction review) no later than two years after your project is substantially completed (the date on which your edifice receives a certificate of occupancy or similar official indication that it is fit and ready for apply). LEED O+M projects are required to submit for review inside 60 days of the stop of their performance flow. If yous decide you no longer want to pursue LEED certification for your projection, nosotros understand. Delight contact GBCI so that they can close your awarding and maintain accurate records.

Campus projects

Campus credit arroyo: We recommend that you consummate the master site review prior to submitting any associated, individual or grouping projects for review, since the campus credits earned through the master site review will then get bachelor to your individual or grouping projects associated with it. Review processes for the primary site and the individual or grouping projects proceed as outlined above. You have the choice to select standard or divide reviews for design and construction rating systems.

Appeals

If you feel that the results of a review appeal or a CIR appeal are wrong and wish to challenge those results, yous may do so by contacting GBCI.

Upgrading your version of LEED Online

We're constantly working to improve the LEED certification experience for you lot, and upgrades to LEED Online that provide a smoother user experience are a key part of those efforts. Bank check below to see which upgrades are bachelor.

Nosotros recently launched LEED Online for Campus, created specifically for campus projects. If you're currently registered as such a project and utilizing LEED Online version 3, please contact GBCI and they will guide you through the process of re-registering in LEED Online for Campus. One time the upgrade has been completed, GBCI volition issue a refund of the registration fee associated with the project that was cancelled out in LEED Online version 3. Unfortunately, if you've already submitted your campus projection for review, y'all'll demand to stick with the version of LEED Online that you registered with – your project cannot be transferred.

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Certify

You've fabricated it to the finish line: accepting your certification is the final stride in the LEED review process. Once your concluding application review is consummate, your projection team can either accept or appeal GBCI's last certification study. If yous've achieved certification: congratulations from all of us at USGBC and GBCI!

Once y'all've accepted the terminal certification written report, the project will be deemed "closed out" –meaning that you volition no longer be able to appeal the certification level or review decisions for specific credits or prerequisites, so delight double (or triple) check that you accept achieved all prerequisites and targeted credits before accepting the last certification.

Certification Levels

While all LEED-certified projects are a cutting to a higher place the remainder, each is assigned one of four levels of certification to admit the caste of achievement. The number of points that your project earns determines the level of LEED certification that your project will receive.

• LEED Certified™: 40-49 points earned
• LEED Silver®: fifty-59 points earned
• LEED Golden®: sixty-79 points earned
• LEED Platinum®: 80+ points earned

Promote your project

Once yous've earned certification, it's likely that you'll desire to tell the world. You should. LEED certification benefits your business organization's lesser line and underscores your sustainability efforts. It'south a crusade for commemoration!

Our public relations guide for LEED-certified projects tin can help yous do that. You'll also receive a formal document of recognition, and can choose to gild LEED plaques and certificates. Learn more.

(Psst… did you know that USGBC Platinum-level members receive twenty hours of dedicated public relations support from USGBC'southward in-house communications squad? Learn more well-nigh Platinum membership.)

Projection information: How USGBC handles your data

Your work with LEED is something to exist celebrated – and communicated to the globe at large. Achieving LEED certification gives yous the opportunity to share your project strategies, photos and insight, and play a pivotal office in educating other project teams.

How is USGBC utilizing your project data?

Nosotros use your project data for the greater good: to educate and provide resources for LEED projection teams and others around the earth, showcase your strategies, and share the size and power of the greenish building movement.

LEED-registered and certified projects are, by default, considered "public" projects, and thereby included in USGBC's public LEED project directory. A listing in this directory allows the general public and members of the media to look up your project listing and its related details.

Hither's a full listing of the data and projection elements that may be listed in the project directory:

Project directory information

• Project name
• Project ID
• Physical address
• Date of registration
• Date of certification
• Certification level
• Total points earned
• Project scorecard
• ACP (Alternative Compliance Path) selection
• Rating organization and version
• Owner type
• Owner name
• Owner organization
• Gross foursquare footage
• Total holding area
• Projection type

All "public" projects as well benefit from publicity opportunities: we may use your project information to create example studies highlighting your projection's features, reference your project on our website or to the media, or create other derivative works.

Data that may exist used for articles, project profiles, other features:

• Service providers
• Projection team members
• Promotional or other project photographs
• Project strategies for certification
• Quotations from team members

You are free to opt-out of the LEED project directory and publicity opportunities as a "private project" at the time of registration: specific instructions on how to do so are available in LEED Online. All private projects that earn certification volition exist prompted in one case moreYou are free to opt-out of the LEED project directory and publicity opportunities as a "private project" at the time of registration: specific instructions on how to exercise so are available in LEED Online. All private projects that earn certification will be prompted once more to transition to public status (we tin't help ourselves, nosotros dearest sharing good news!). Y'all will need to confirm your "private" status at that time. to transition to public status (we can't help ourselves, nosotros love sharing good news!). You lot will demand to re-confirm your "private" status at that fourth dimension, if you wish to retain it. Please note, confidential, or private LEED-certified projects are not authorized to employ the LEED certification marks.

Important considerations

Borderline for achieving certification

Each rating arrangement will remain open and bachelor for certification for at least six years after the rating system registration close date. To certify your project under a specific rating system, you must submit for certification by that rating organisation's certification shut appointment, also called the dusk date. If you lot take difficulty meeting this deadline, please reach out to GBCI—they'll work with y'all on a solution for your project. View the LEED registration close and certification close deadlines.

Expiration of LEED certification

If you've earned certification for your LEED O+One thousand project, y'all must recertify inside five years of the previous certification.

Revocation of LEED certification

In rare situations, LEED certification may be revoked. Nosotros've created the Certification Claiming Policy to ensure that all LEED projection submittals and subsequent reviews past GBCI squad members are washed so with integrity, accuracy and truthfulness. A certification challenge may be initiated by GBCI or by any 3rd political party within 18 months of a projection's certification. In line with the policy, yous'll need to retain all project documentation related to your certification, and the accomplishment of prerequisites and credits, on-site at your certified projection for two years subsequently receiving certification, to ensure that this data is bachelor in case of a challenge.

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This Certification Challenge Policy has been put in place to protect the integrity of the LEED certification programme as a apparent, accurate, and industry-recognized system for evaluating the design and construction of sustainable buildings. GBCI intends this policy to function equally both a quality check on GBCI LEED reviews, also every bit an instrument designed to detect and remedy incidents of intentional or inadvertent misrepresentation which upshot in the inappropriate award of LEED certification. This policy is non meant to serve as a vehicle for the arbitrament of disputes betwixt outside parties. Accordingly, this policy and the certification challenge process detailed herein do not replace any applicable judicial or other culling dispute resolution processes that tertiary parties may accept available to resolve such disputes between themselves. Complaints that might warrant initiation of the Certification Challenge Procedure should be submitted to legal@gbci.org.

• ane.1Certification Challenge Overview: All persons participating in the submission of information in applying for an award of LEED certification must be truthful, forthcoming, and cooperative in their dealings with GBCI; all the same, it is the responsibility of the project owner to confirm and stand for the veracity and accuracy of the documentation submitted. To the extent the veracity or accuracy of such documentation, or GBCI's evaluation of the same, is chosen into question, GBCI may initiate a certification claiming thereby revisiting its determination that the submitted documentation properly demonstrates that the project satisfied all credits, prerequisites, and MPRs necessary to achieve the awarded level of LEED certification. A project possessor may defend against such certification challenge past electing to participate in the process described below. Based on the concluding decision of such a challenge, GBCI retains the correct to reduce the level of LEED certification awarded or revoke an award of LEED certification altogether.
• 1.2Footing for an Initiation of a Certification Challenge: GBCI reserves the right to institute investigations and review documentation for any reason or for no reason at all. In add-on, GBCI encourages 3rd parties who wish to make a complaint, or bring to light information affecting the grant of LEED certification to practice so in the following manner. Parties seeking to submit a complaint or report information affecting the grant of LEED certification must accept specific personal knowledge of an outcome or status that would forbid a projection from satisfying a particular credit, prerequisite, or MPR. Complainants must indicate the credit, prerequisite, or MPR that is afflicted. Further, such persons must indicate to the fullest extent possible, in the form of a written argument, details of such event or condition including the post-obit: i) the alleged offending carry or condition; ii) the persons involved; 3) other persons who may have cognition of the facts and circumstances apropos the allegation, including contact data for such persons; and iv) the identity of the person presenting the complaint including such person's full proper name, address, email, and telephone number. Complaints must be submitted to GBCI inside eighteen (18) months of the accolade of LEED certification for a project. GBCI cannot guarantee anonymity to persons submitting complaints. If GBCI determines that the complaint is frivolous or irrelevant to the credits, prerequisites and MPRs required for LEED certification, no farther action will be taken.
• 1.3Footing for an Initiation of a Certification Challenge: GBCI reserves the right to found investigations and review documentation for any reason or for no reason at all. In addition, GBCI encourages 3rd parties who wish to make a complaint, or bring to light information affecting the grant of LEED certification to do so in the following manner. Parties seeking to submit a complaint or study information affecting the grant of LEED certification must take specific personal knowledge of an event or condition that would forbid a project from satisfying a detail credit, prerequisite, or MPR. Complainants must indicate the credit, prerequisite, or MPR that is afflicted. Farther, such persons must indicate to the fullest extent possible, in the form of a written argument, details of such event or condition including the following: i) the declared offending conduct or condition; two) the persons involved; iii) other persons who may accept cognition of the facts and circumstances apropos the allegation, including contact information for such persons; and iv) the identity of the person presenting the complaint including such person's full name, address, e-mail, and telephone number. Complaints must be submitted to GBCI within eighteen (18) months of the accolade of LEED certification for a project. GBCI cannot guarantee anonymity to persons submitting complaints. If GBCI determines that the complaint is frivolous or irrelevant to the credits, prerequisites and MPRs required for LEED certification, no further activeness will exist taken.
• ane.4Certification Claiming Investigation Process: In performing a formal investigation, GBCI will review whatsoever or all of the project'south documentation that GBCI, in its sole discretion, deems relevant. GBCI may request supplemental information from the person(south) making the complaint and may require the complainant to provide a statement in the form of an affidavit attested to under penalisation of perjury. GBCI may request information from the projection team, project possessor, and/or others involved in the project.

  If GBCI determines that a site visit may be useful, GBCI, with the assistance of one or more than technical consultants, may, merely is non required to, conduct an on-site inspection of a projection. GBCI shall notify the project owner of the necessity of the site visit in writing. GBCI representatives including staff members and/or technical consultants shall make the arrangements for the site visit.
  No staff or technical consultant may: i) investigate whatsoever matter regarding a project he or she previously reviewed; 2) investigate any matter in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned; or 3) investigate whatever matter which presents an actual, credible, or potential conflict of involvement. GBCI representatives who are tasked with conducting a site visit must sign an appointment agreement and abide past GBCI requirements regarding conflicts of involvement and confidentiality.

• 1.5GBCI Preliminary Staff Findings: Upon the conclusion of an investigation, if GBCI determines in its sole discretion that the projection owner submitted truthful and authentic documentation when applying for certification and that sufficient evidence exists to demonstrate that (i) all prerequisites and MPRs were properly completed at the time certification was conferred and (ii) the minimum number of credits were properly completed at the time certification was conferred such that the project obtained the requisite number of points necessary to accomplish LEED certification at the level awarded, no further action will exist taken. The project owner and any persons submitting complaints will be notified of this decision. If GBCI determines that the documentation submitted was not completely truthful and accurate, or that insufficient testify exists to demonstrate the project properly achieved LEED certification at the level awarded, GBCI shall transmit a statement of its findings to the project possessor by e-mail via verifiable method of commitment, setting along the affected credits, prerequisites, and/or MPRs, and including a written statement:
  1. of the facts constituting the inaccurate grant of credit, prerequisite, minimum program requirement, or falsely submitted documentation and the credits/prerequisites/minimum programme requirements affected;
  2. that the projection owner has thirty (30) agenda days later receipt of such statement;
  3. identifying the proposed sanctions adamant by GBCI potentially including revocation of LEED certification, or reduction of the level of LEED certification awarded.
• 1.6Stage ane: Battling GBCI Preliminary Staff Findings: If the project possessor seeks to competition the findings, or is unwilling to have the determined sanctions, such owner must submit a written response addressing the Preliminary GBCI Staff Findings and/or the determined sanctions within thirty (xxx) calendar days after the owner'south receipt of such statement. The project possessor may also submit additional data related to the challenged LEED program requirement(south). If the project owner accepts, or fails to timely respond to such statement and underlying findings, GBCI shall enact the determined sanctions and close the matter. Such acceptance, or failure to respond, shall plant a waiver of the correct to a review or hearing and entreatment of the same.

  Upon receiving a response to this statement, GBCI staff shall make a determination every bit to the disposition of the challenge and identify the sanctions to exist imposed. GBCI shall provide notice of such determination and sanctions to the project possessor along with a statement:

  1. that the possessor or representative thereof may asking an oral hearing (in person or by phone) or a review by written briefing for the disposition of the matter, with the possessor bearing its own expenses;
  2. that the owner or representative may appear in person, may examine and catechize whatever witness under adjuration, and may produce evidence on its behalf;
  3. that if the owner disputes the findings, or requests a review or hearing, the possessor thereby consents to the formation of a Review Panel for the purpose of rendering a determination on the evidence before information technology, and farther agrees to comply with whatever applicable sanctions subject to an appeal; and
  4. those certain authoritative fees, as detailed in Pricing Appendix A, utilize if the project team requests a written review or hearing.
• 1.7Stage 2: Written Review or Hearing of a GBCI Staff Decision: If a projection owner seeks to contest the conclusion or sanctions issued past GBCI staff, the project owner may submit a request for either a hearing or review by written conference. The fees outlined in Pricing Appendix A must be provided to GBCI within thirty (30) calendar days following the date the owner's written request was received by GBCI.

  If the project possessor requests a hearing or written review, the GBCI Chair in consultation with the GBCI President shall appoint three persons to serve on a Review Panel, each of whom shall be qualified by virtue of preparation and experience to have the appropriate technical knowledge in the relevant LEED program requirements. No member of such Review Console may: i) review any matter regarding a project he or she previously reviewed; 2) review whatever matter in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned; or 3) review whatever matter which presents an actual or apparent conflict of interest relating to the project.

  If the project owner requests a written review, GBCI will frontward its findings and the response of the project possessor to the Review Panel. Written briefing may be submitted inside thirty (thirty) agenda days following receipt of the request for such written review.

  If the projection owner requests a hearing, GBCI shall forward its findings and the response of the project possessor to the Review Panel and shall designate one staff fellow member to present the findings and whatever substantiating testify, to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to present the matter during the hearing. The Review Panel will schedule a hearing after the request is received, allowing for a period of at least thirty (30) days to prepare for such hearing, and will send by email and via verifiable means of delivery, a Notice of Hearing to the project owner. The Observe of Hearing will include a statement of the time and identify selected by the Review Panel. The project owner may request modification of the time and place for good cause.

  The Review Panel, GBCI, and the projection owner may consult with and exist represented by counsel, make opening statements, nowadays documents and testimony, examine and cross-examine witnesses nether adjuration, make closing statements and present written briefs every bit scheduled by the Review Panel. To the extent a projection owner or representative fails to attend the hearing in person or by telephone, such hearing shall commence as scheduled without representation by the owner. The Review Panel volition make up one's mind all matters related to the hearing. Formal rules of evidence will not apply. Relevant evidence may be admitted. Disputed questions will be determined past the Review Panel.

  GBCI volition meet its brunt of proof if it is able to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence, and the projection possessor is unable to refute either that the projection owner failed to submit true, and accurate documentation when applying for certification, or that bereft evidence exists to demonstrate that (i) all prerequisites and MPRs were properly completed at the fourth dimension certification was conferred and (ii) that the minimum number of credits were properly completed at the time certification was conferred such that the project obtained the requisite number of points necessary to attain LEED certification at the level awarded.
  Upon the decision of a review or hearing, if the Review Console determines that GBCI has non met this brunt of proof no adverse action will be advised and the thing shall exist closed. If the Review Panel determines that GBCI has met this burden of proof it shall identify the appropriate sanctions to be carried out by GBCI.
  The Review Panel will issue a written decision following the review or hearing. This decision will comprise factual findings, conclusions, and whatsoever sanctions if appropriate. Such written decision shall be sent promptly by electronic mail via verifiable means of delivery to the project owner and any persons submitting complaints.

• one.8Stage 3: Appeal of a Review Panel Decision Before GBCI Lath of Directors: If a project owner seeks to contest the decision of the Review Panel, such owner may submit a request for an appeal to the GBCI Board of Directors. All requests for appeals must be submitted in writing and sent to GBCI past verified and traceable email, U.South. Mail post, personal delivery, or private courier (such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, etc), within thirty (30) calendar days after the possessor's receipt of the Review Console'due south decision. Requests for appeals must exist accompanied past written briefing setting along the ground for the appeal. If the project possessor requests an appeal in accordance with this section, the fees outlined in pricing Appendix A must be provided to GBCI within 30 (thirty) agenda days of GBCI'south receipt of such asking.

  In order to overturn a certification claiming decision by the Review Panel, it shall exist the burden of the project owner to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the GBCI Board of Directors that such decision was capricious or capricious.
  The GBCI Board of Directors will render a written decision based on the tape below and written briefs (if any); there will exist no oral hearing. The determination of the GBCI Lath of Directors will be mailed promptly past certified mail, render receipt requested, to the project possessor. Decisions rendered by the GBCI Lath of Directors shall be concluding. Persons submitting complaints shall be notified of the decision of the GBCI Board of Directors.

• 1.9Revocation of LEED certification: Based on the final determination of a Certification Claiming, GBCI retains the right to reduce the level of LEED certification awarded, or to revoke an award of LEED certification.

  GBCI retains the right, in its sole discretion, to revoke LEED certification from whatever projection where it is denied access to a projection for the purposes of performing an audit or site visit, or information technology is prevented from examining documentation related to the project'due south design, construction, and/or operations pertaining to LEED certification, as a result of a project possessor being unwilling or unable to provide such access or documentation.

  GBCI retains the right, in its reasonable discretion, to revoke LEED certification from any project where it is denied admission to, or for which information technology is non provided with, energy and water use data on an ongoing footing after LEED certification is conferred, every bit is required.

To the extent a project is subject to revocation of LEED certification, such project volition be removed from the LEED certified project database and may no longer be referred to as a LEED certified project. GBCI shall place the project's certification as having been revoked. Additionally, if GBCI revokes certification of any project for which a Platinum-level certification was previously awarded, and for which the project owner received a rebate of whatever or all certification fees, the possessor of such projection shall be liable for refunding all monies so received to GBCI. Further, the owner of such projection shall immediately end all use and display of any LEED trademarks, associated logos, and other intellectual property licensed by GBCI.

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Fees

LEED certification provides an exceptional value for your coin: So, how much will information technology cost to certify your project?

• Registration fee: There is a flat registration fee calculated on a per-project (building) ground that yous'll pay upwards front at the time of registration. If nosotros haven't received your payment inside sixty days of your registration, we'll assume you lot changed your mind and go ahead and cancel the registration.
• Certification fee: The certification fee is charged on a per-project (building) basis and based on the size of the project and the rating system under which the projection is registered. Certification fees are due when you submit your application for review. Later all that work you did to submit your documentation, don't forget to transport your payment! Remember, GBCI will not begin your review until payment in full has been received and cleared our arrangement (thank y'all!). Also, delight note that certification fees are based on the fees published at the time the project is submitted for review.
• Other fees: Other fees related to expedited reviews, appeals, and other optional aspects of the LEED certification process may apply, should you pursue these avenues.
• Fellow member discounts: USGBC Argent, Aureate and Platinum level member organizations benefit from discounted LEED registration and certification fees. Discounts are available based on the membership condition of either the owner or the project administrator for a given LEED project. Visit the fee charts page beneath for more than information on bachelor discounts.

View all fee charts.

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USGBC offers a number of resource and tools to support y'all during the procedure of LEED certification.

General resources

• Credit Library
• Addenda database
• Pilot Credit library
• Regional Priority Credit lookup
• LEED Online: v4, v3
• Education @USGBC
• Legal agreements: LEED Certification Agreement, Confirmation of Agent'south Authorisation, Confirmation of Primary Possessor'due south Dominance, Alter of Possessor Agreement

BD+C specific

LEED v4

• Reference Guide
• Rating System Certificate
• Checklist

LEED 2009

• Reference Guide
• Supplements: Healthcare, Retail
• Rating Organization Document: New Construction, Retail, Healthcare, Schools, Core & Shell
• Checklist: New Construction, Core & Crush, Schools, Healthcare

LEED v2.2

• Reference Guide (New Structure)
• Rating System Document
• Checklist

LEED v2.i

• Rating System Document
• Checklist

LEED v2.0

• Reference Guide (New Construction)
• Reference Guide (Schools)
• Reference Guide (Core and Shell)
• Rating System Document
• Checklist

ID+C specific

LEED v4

• Reference Guide
• Rating Organisation Document
• Checklist

LEED 2009

• Reference Guide
• Retail Supplement
• Rating Organisation Document: Commercial Interiors, Retail
• Checklist: Commercial Interiors, Retail

LEED v2

• Reference Guide
• Rating Organisation Document
• Checklist

O+Grand specific

LEED v4

• Reference Guide
• Rating System Document
• Checklist

LEED 2009

• Reference Guide
• Rating System Document
• Checklist

LEED v2

• Reference Guide
• Rating Organisation Certificate
• Checklist

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Source: https://www.usgbc.org/tools/leed-certification/commercial

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