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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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