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Comment 20 for Green Building Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-greenbuild-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: John
Last Name: Walser
Email Address: john@usgbc-ncc.org
Affiliation: USGBC-Northern California Chapter

Subject: Green Buildings
Comment:
Appendic C, Section 6 of the Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan
refers to LEED rating systems.  It is important to note that the
existing LEED Rating Systems are undergoing a continuous
improvement process that will include a reorganization of the
rating systems and several key advancements.  The new Rating
Systems, called LEED 2009 (formerly known as LEED V3), consists of
prerequisite and credit alignment and harmonization, transparent
environmental and human impact credit weighting, regionalization
and a predictable development cycle.  At present, LEED 2009 is
available for public comment and not final.  Therefore, the Draft
Scoping Plan should acknowledge that reduction strategies should
be based upon the LEED 2009 Rating Systems (e.g., LEED for New
Construction, LEED for Existing Buildings, LEED for Commercial
Interiors, LEED for Core and Shell, LEED for Schools), or the most
current version of LEED.  

Section 6 of Appendix C should reference that the California
Building Standards Commission adopted the initial version of the
green building standards code on July 17, 2008.  The initial
version of the code is voluntary and is scheduled to become
effective on July 1, 2009.  The mandatory verion of the code is
under development as part of the 2010 code development cycle, and
will become effective in 2011 and not 2010 as stated in Section 6
of Appendix C.  At this time, it is not clear whether all, or only
a subset of, the measures in the voluntary version of the code will
in fact become mandatory in the next version.  GHG reduction
strategies and the assumptions they are based upon should reflect
this uncertainty.
 

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-06 16:08:59



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