Innovation and Design for Homes encourages planning and design. Regional best practices can be shown to produce quantifiable environmental and human health benefits.
- Integrated Project Planning
ID 1.1: Preliminary Rating
ID 1.2: Integrated Project Team ( 1 point)
ID 1.3: Professional Credentialed with Respect to LEED for homes (1 point)
ID 1.4: Design Charette (1 point)
ID 1.5: Building Operations for Solar Design (1 point)
- Durability Management Process
ID 2.1: Durability Planning
ID 2.2: Durability Management
ID 2.3: Third Part Durability Management Verification (3 points)
- Innovative or Regional Design - additional green design measures that have tangible and demonstrable benefits beyond those in LEED for Homes Rating System.
ID 3.1 Innovation 1 (1 point) - Prepare written report
1. Intent of proposed measure
2. Proposed requirement for compliance
3. Proposed documentation to demonstrate compliance; and
4. Description and an estimate of the benefit or impact provided by
the proposed measure.
ID 3.2 Innovation 2 (1 point)
ID 3.3 Innovation 3 (1 point)
ID 3.4 Innovation 4 (1 point)
Synergies and Tradeoffs: A project can also receive 1 LEED point for exceeding the performance requirements of existing credits.
Above information from LEED for Homes Reference Guide 2008. Please refer to manual for complete explanations.
