Background: 1250 sq ft house. LEED Homes without compromise to design. Sustainability is part of the design (except for the fridge - duly noted). LEED without adding to the budget for the sake of having LEED. Electric bill: $50/ mo (summer). Water bill $23 for 3 mo.
One of my biggest problems with this experiment was how convoluted the documentation process is. It's actually so convoluted that it borders on inaccessible. If the goal of LEED is to promote sustainability, why not make it easy to document a building design and it's level of sustainability? After 200+ hours of documentation, I'm still not finished. I'm not looking for it to be easy, but it needs to be accessible to the common home owner.
If the goal is a better world and homes are some of the largest consumers of energy and resources, make it viable for a home owner to take part. If you have to go through the effort of hiring a consultant to design a LEED home, it's not promoting sustainability it's fostering a level elitism. For which you have to pay to play.
oh and PS. I did the whole house in Revit (2010. before the greatful ribbon hack). Many of the points are available for documentation directly from the model. Areas. Volumes. Material Take-offs. LEED is asking for people to invest in new technologies and methods, so why don't they use BIM as a documentation resource? My cost of LEED so far (in cash, not time) - $150.
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I think this would be REALLY interesting to pass around to folks in my firm. Do you think you can create a PDF or something when you have this 'unLEED' series done?
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