LEED POINTS YOU EARN
LEED is an internationally recognized certification system that measures how well a building or community performs across all the
metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2
emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and
stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
,
LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for
identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building
design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.
LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential.
It
works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction,
operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant retrofit.
And LEED for Neighborhood Development extends the benefits of LEED
beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it serves.
Each building structure that follows the LEED system follows a points system to classify each building.With our program, you might only need 5 or 6 points and you can immediately jump into the next classification of certification.
How Many Additional Points Can You Qualify to Receive?
5 Pts Minimum -16 Pts Maximum
When you utilize our system, you generate immediately 5 points simply from the following two categories:
• Water Efficient Credit 1.1:Water
Efficient Landscaping: Reduce water needs
by 50%(1 POINT)
By installing the hollow
sand and adding the humectant, we
reduce your water requirements easily to
less than 50%
• Innovation and Design Credit 1: Innovative Design: Goal is utilize a new
method of savings using a material or method not presently addressed in the
LEED System – achieve exemplary or innovative performance beyond that addressed
in LEED.(4
POINTS)
When the LEED program was written, the implementation of injecting hollow
sand into the soil and with added humectants to save water was not presently in practice in the landscape
industry; although it was used in golf courses, it never transitioned over to the commercial or residential
landscape marketplace. By implementing our program of water conservation, you can keep the beautiful landscape you
enjoy without the need to reduce and/or remove turf areas and reduce or eliminate beautiful plants and trees to
instead put in more drought tolerant plantings. Remember, our conservation method is the only outdoor landscape
method that manufactures water on a
daily basis and utilizing a phase
change( dew point ) in the soil as well as taking the humidity and converting it
to water droplets in the soil profile
that are in turn absorbed by the columns of hollow sand, we use less water because we make water each day.
Not only does this
method address the wants and desires of LEED with storm water runoff, recycled material, it conforms on so many more levels
as well and it is never once mentioned in the
LEED system. You are eligible to receive 4 points from using this method of
water conservation.
Additional Points are based upon each
structure's ability to qualify:
• Water Efficient Credit 1.2: Water
Efficient Landscaping: No Potable Water
Use or No City Water Irrigation(1 POINT)
By installing the underground
rain or gray water capture
system, we irrigate with rainwater or gray water
only
• Sustainable Sites Credit 5.1: Protect or Restore Habitat: Taking a project and being at least
40 feet away from structure and taking the footprint of the land and utilizing
a minimum of 50% for native or adapted vegetation. (1 POINT)
By
installing the hollow sand at twice the density and adding the
humectants no
irrigation is needed to keep the native vegetation
such as wild
flowers or native plants alive. Utilization of normal
rainfall will be all that
is needed.
• Sustainable Sites Credit 6.1: Storm Water Design – Quantity Control: Rainfall that normally would be
absorbed into the ground is now hitting impervious surfaces like the roof and
the parking lot. How to offset this storm water.
(1 POINT)
By
installing the hollow sand into the landscape turf and
flowerbeds profile, if
the vegetative area with hollow sand is
greater than the impervious surfaces
total area, then the
impervious areas for storm water is offset. The hollow
sand by
nature absorbs water. So as soon as water hits the ground area
it is
pulled immediately into the lower soil profile by the hollow
sand rather than
having to wait for it to percolate into
the
normal soil. After the hollow sand is fully saturated, it acts like
normal
sand and sand allows moisture to percolate faster than
any other soil particle.
With all these columns of hollow sand
throughout the landscape profile, they
act as a super highway to
expedite the rainfall to be absorbed into the lower
soil layers.
Thus less water runs off the property; instead, it is captured for
utilization to water the landscape and the excess is moved
immediately into a
deeper soil layer immediately.
• Sustainable Sites Credit 6.2: Storm Water Design – Quality Control: The best and easiest
way to improve the quality of storm water is to let water permeate the ground
through increased landscaping and reduced impervious areas. As long as your
soil type has a good infiltration rate, letting storm water seep into the
ground will treat 100% of the pollutants associated with the storm water
runoff. Goal of 90% of average annual rainfall to be absorbed by the ground. (1 POINT)
Yes, with the installation
of hollow sand into the landscape profile
along with a landscape greater than
the impervious
surfaces (roof , sidewalks, driveways, parking lots) and by
implementing a double density application of the landscape
profile, it is possible to absorb 90% of the annual rainfall.
More effective primarily in areas where
it is flat and not on steep
hills will benefit the most.
• Energy & Atmosphere Credit 2: On-Site Renewable Energy: Goal is to save a
minimum of 2.5% of structures annual utility cost. (1 POINT)
By installing an underground
rain capture or gray water capture
system, the pumping system utilized to water
the
landscape is powered by a solar
panel specific to the pumping system. No
power is used from the grid to irrigate your landscape
• Materials & Resources Credit 4: Recycled Content: Goal is to be at 10%
-20% of Total Material cost is recycled content.
(1
- 2 POINTS)
The hollow sand "AquaGreen" is 100%
recycled material. The
underground reservoir is 100% recycled content. Thus,
this
installation will not affect your ability to obtain the recycled
content
credit; instead, it will enhance your efforts to get to the
two points you want to achieve.
• Materials & Resources Credit 5: Regional Materials: Goal is to be at 10%
-20% of Total Materials used on structure are from within 500 miles of plant of manufacture. (1
- 2 POINTS)
500 Miles is a long way to
obtain this credit. Our hollow sand
product 'AquaGreen ' will qualify for the entire USA to
obtain this
credit. We have manufacturers
scattered about the USA and if
you want to achieve this credit, we will make
sure we utilize the
hollow sand from your closest supply manufacturer.
• Materials & Resources Credit 6: Rapidly Renewable: Goal is to be at 2.5%
of total project cost from materials that have a harvest
cycle of 10 years or fewer. This includes materials like bamboo, agri-fibers,
and others . Materials for this credit can come from either plants or
animals—but they have to be harvested without harming the animal. (1POINT)
The"AquaGreen" hollow sand is 100% recycled material from a
product that is rapidly
renewable. This will enhance you to get to
the
2.5% you want to achieve.
Pilot Credit 10: Sustainable
Waste Water Management
By installing the
underground gray water system and removing a
minimum of 25% of the building’s
wastewater for
Landscapes reuse (1 POINT)
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