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rainwater management, providing good indoor environmental quality to students and teachers, and promoting methods for waste reduction.
To achieve the maximum 10 points available, project teams should incorporate as many credits under each pathway as they prefer, using any combination of project type credits, exemplary performance credits, regional priorities, innovation strategies, and pilot credit pathways, as well as including a LEED AP as a key member of the project team.
Project Type
Achieve a project-type credit from the USGBC’s Project Priority Library. USGBC has identified these credits as addressing unique needs for the given adaptation or building application.
Example strategies: Project type A data center project might focus on project type credits specific to data centers that address energy efficiency, advanced cooling technologies, and renewable energy integration.
Exemplary Performance
Achieve exemplary performance requirements of an existing LEED v5 credit eligible for exemplary performance, as specified in USGBC’s Project Priority Library. Exemplary performance earns points by exceeding the credit requirements or achieving the next incremental percentage threshold for the credit.
Regional Priority
Identify the environmental, social impact, and/or public health priorities for the project’s location and achieve LEED credits that address those regional priorities. Regional Priority credits address geographically specific environmental and/or social priorities for the project’s region.
Innovation Strategies
Achieve innovation credits from the USGBC’s Project Priority Library. Alternatively, achieve innovation credits by adopting new strategies not addressed in the LEED rating system that demonstrate reduced environmental impacts, increased decarbonization, and improved social impacts. Projects will need to submit documentation that identifies the intent of the proposed innovation credit, proposed requirements for compliance, proposed submittals to demonstrate compliance, and the design approach or strategies used to meet the requirements.
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