Section 2: Individual LEED Credit Reviews
Summary of First Cost Impacts
and on running the systems in all modes of
operation. After the first year of operational
support, the architect/engineer(s) and
contractor/manufacturer(s) are under contract to
Courthouse (New Construction, 262,000 GSF)
provide recommissioning of selected building
systems and additional training of the operating
No identified cost premiums.
staff (if needed). GSA also plans to require a
recommissioning management manual from their
Office Building (Modernization, 306,600 GSF)
commissioning authorities along with their
commissioning reports.
No identified cost premiums.
GSA routinely conducts Post-Occupancy
Evaluations (POE), also known as Facility
Additional Considerations
Performance Evaluations (FPE), on major new
construction and renovation projects. For practical
None identified.
reasons, the GSA Project Manager or a consultant
independent of the original delivery team and
Synergistic Credits
commissioning authority performs the FPE.
Currently, GSA is developing a Web-based tool to
facilitate the FPE process.
The tasks defined in EA Prerequisite 1,
Fundamental Building Systems Commissioning, are
Basis for Cost Assumption
also included in GSA's total building
commissioning process. For the purposes of this
study, however, no synergistic cost impacts apply.
GSA considers total building commissioning to be
a project requirement independent of LEED. As
such, there is no LEED-related premium
associated with this credit or for EA Prerequisite 1,
Fundamental Building Systems Commissioning.
The cost level associated with the Additional
Commissioning credit is estimated to be
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.15/GSF for projects of the scale and complexityof the Courthouse and Office building models.
GSA's total building commissioning fees are
assumed to be slightly higher than this, as GSA's
commissioning scope is more comprehensive than
the LEED requirements.
Additional commissioning cost information is
included under EA Prerequisite 1, Fundamental
Building Systems Commissioning, and in Section 4
of this report.
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