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Requirements - Verified by
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Points Available
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Points Claimed
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Section 1: Lot Design Preparation, and Development
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Identify goals with your team
Establish a knowledgeable team.
- Identify team
member roles and how they relate to various phases of green lot
design, prep, and development.
- Create a mission
statement that includes the project’s goals and objectives.
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6
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6
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Site the home and other built features to optimize
solar resource (refer to the Energy
Efficiency section for guidance on solar resource optimization). (Note
– do not include these points if you get points from 3.4.1.a or 3.4.1.b
in the Energy Efficiency section)
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Site optimizes solar
resources
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6
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6
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Develop the site
Minimize environmental intrusion during onsite construction.
Provide onsite supervision and coordination
during clearing, grading, trenching, paving, and installation of
utilities to ensure that targeted green development practices are
implemented (see Design
Site – Minimize Slope and Soil Disturbance).
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5
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5
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Seek to obtain waivers or variances from local
development regulations to enhance green building.
Share driveways or parking.
Other (specify in Comments field below).
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6
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6
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Total Points Claimed in
Section 1: Lot Design Preparation, and Development
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23
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Bronze
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Silver
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Gold
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Required Points
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8
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10
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12
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Additional Points
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15
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13
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11
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Section 2: Resource Efficiency
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Create an efficient home floor plan that
maintains a home's functionality. All measurements listed below are area
of home in square feet, based on ANSI Z765-2003. The home must
be no larger than the areas listed below for each bedroom type to earn
points.
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1332 square feet
2 bedrooms
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1825 square feet
3 bedrooms
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2555 square feet
4 bedrooms
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3296 square feet
5+ bedrooms
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1
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1
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Use advanced framing techniques
that reduce the amount of home building material while maintaining the structural
integrity of the home
Builders need to employ at least two of the
items listed in the User Guide in order to get 4 points for this line
item. An additional point is granted for each additional technique
employed to a maximum of eight points.
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Two Advanced Framing
methods used
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4
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4
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Create a detailed framing plan and detailed material
takeoffs. Provide an onsite cut list for all framing and sheathing
material.
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Framing plan and cut
list
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7
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7
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Use building materials that require no additional
finish resources to complete application onsite.
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Finish-ready materials
used
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4
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4
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Use pre-cut or pre-assembled building
systems or methods.
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Provide a pre-cut
(joist) or pre-manufactured (truss) floor
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3
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3
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Provide a pre-cut
(joist) or pre-manufactured (truss) roof framing package
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3
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3
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Provide a panelized
wall framing system
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6
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6
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Divert surface water from all sides of building. Slope
top of backfill to achieve settled slope of at least 6” of fall within
10 feet of the foundation walls
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7
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Provide a water-resistive barrier (WRB)
or a drainage plane system behind
the exterior veneer system or the exterior siding.
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WRB or drainage plane
installed
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8
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8
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Use products that contain fewer resources to meet the
same end-use as traditional products.
A project must use resource efficient
materials for at least two different types of components to receive the
three points.
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Resource-efficient
materials used
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3
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3
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Total Points Claimed in
Section 2: Resource Efficiency
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46
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Bronze
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Silver
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Gold
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Required Points
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44
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60
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77
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Additional Points
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2
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0
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0
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Section 3: Energy Efficiency
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At this point you need to decide whether to use the prescriptive
method or the performance method to score the house.
If you opt to use the prescriptive method, you will be taken through a
menu of energy efficient choices in the house envelope, HVAC and other
energy consuming items for which points have been assigned.
If you opt to use the performance approach,
you must use ResCheck to determine what
percentage that the home's energy efficiency exceeds the requirements of IECC 2003
- 15, 30 or 40 percent. If you choose this method, you will not be
allowed to choose from certain choices offered in the prescriptive
approach, items related to the building envelope and the HVAC system that
have already received credit in ResCheck. This scoring tool will not
allow you to make those choices. If using the performance path, check
which level of performance the home will achieve.
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Choose Prescriptive or
Performance path.
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Prescriptive/ Performance
Path
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Prescriptive Path
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Use HVAC installer and service technician certified by
a nationally or regionally recognized program such as NATE,
BPI, RPA,
or manufacturers' training.
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Certified technician
used?
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6
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6
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Heat pump efficiency (cooling mode)
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6
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6
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Heat pump efficiency (heating mode)
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6
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Seal ducts, plenums, and equipment to reduce leakage.
Use UL 181 foil tapes and/or
mastic.
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6
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6
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Install whole-house instaneous (tankless) water heater.
(Water heater complies with DOE Standard 10CFR430)
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Tankless water heater
installed
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4
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Install all recessed lighting fixtures within the
conditioned envelope of the building, e.g., housing does not penetrate
insulated ceiling.
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Recessed lighting
fixtures comply
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7
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Install ENERGY STAR®-labeled appliances:
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