LEED® Platinum Certification

This category:

• Discourages development on previously undeveloped land.
• Seeks to minimize a building’s impact on ecosystems and waterways.
• Encourages regionally appropriate landscaping.
• Rewards smart transportation choices.
• Controls stormwater runoff.
• Promotes the reduction of erosion, light pollution, heat island effect, and construction-related pollution.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 10 Points Awarded

• Site selection, 1/1
• Alternative transportation – bicycle storage and changing rooms, 1/1; low emitting and fuel efficient vehicles, 1/1; parking capacity, 1/1
• Site development – protect/restore habitat, 1/1
• Stormwater design – quantity control, 1/1; quality control, 1/1
• Heat island effect – non-roof, 1/1; roof, 1/1
• Light pollution reduction; 1/1

This category encourages smarter use of water through:

• More efficient appliances, fixtures, and fittings inside.
• Water-conscious landscaping outside.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 5 Points Awarded

• Water efficient landscaping – reduced by 50%, 1/1
• Water efficient landscaping – no potable water used or no irrigation, 1/1
• Innovative wastewater techniques, 1/1
• Water use reductions – 20% reduction, 1/1
• Water use reductions – 30% reduction, 1/1

This category encourages a wide variety of energy-wise strategies:

• Energy use monitoring.
• Efficient design and construction.
• Efficient appliances, systems, and lighting.
• The use of renewable and clean sources of energy, generated on site or off-site.
• Other innovative measures.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 15 Points Awarded

• Optimized energy performance, 10/10
• On-site renewable energy, 3/3
• Enhanced refrigerant management, 1/1
• Green power, 1/1

This category:

• Encourages the selection of sustainably grown, harvested, produced, and transported products and materials.
• Promotes waste reduction as well as reuse and recycling, and it particularly rewards the reduction of waste at a product’s source.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 6 Points Awarded

• Construction waste management – divert 50% from disposal, 1/1; divert 75% from disposal, 1/1
• Materials reuse – 5%, 1/1
• Recycled content – 10% (post-consumer + 1/2 pre-consumer), 1/1
• Regional materials – 10% extracted, processed and manufactured regionally, 1/1; 20% extracted, processed and manufactured regionally, 1/1

This category:

• Promotes strategies that improve indoor air.
• Promotes strategies that provide access to natural daylight and views.
• Promotes strategies that improve acoustics.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 12 Points Awarded

• Construction Indoor Air Quality management plan – during construction, 1/1; before occupancy; 1/1
• Low-emitting materials – adhesives and sealants, 1/1; paints and coatings, 1/1; carpet systems, 1/1; composite wood and agrifiber products, 1/1
• Controllability of systems – lighting, 1/1; thermal comfort, 1/1
• Thermal comfort – design, 1/1; verification, 1/1
• Daylight and views – daylight 75% of spaces, 1/1; views for 90% of spaces; 1/1

This category:

• Provides bonus points for projects that use innovative technologies and strategies to improve a building’s performance well beyond what is required by other LEED® credits, or to account for green building considerations that are not specifically addressed elsewhere in LEED®.
• Rewards projects for including a LEED® Accredited Professional on the team to ensure a holistic, integrated approach to the design and construction process.

Moorhead Environmental Complex Score: 4 Points Awarded

• Innovation in design; +3
• LEED® Accredited Professional; +1