The LEED Feasibility or LEED Gap Analysis is a detailed and realistic assessment of your project against LEED requirements. This study establishes a budgeted and scheduled action plan for the following design phases in order to reach the desired LEED level.

 

Whether you are developing a new construction, undertaking a major renovation or optimizing an existing building, a LEED feasibility allows you to assess your project performance against LEED requirements, estimate the level of certification your project can achieve and determine the programmatic and design strategies to implement to reach it.

 

For a new construction or major renovation, we will analyze the proposed project against LEED requirements in concept and schematic design stages. This will result in a credit by credit matrix that will determine which credits are reached, which ones could be reached with design optimization and which ones are unachievable. For each of the credits which require design optimizations, we indicate which optimizations are the most pertinent to your project and assist your design teams in implementing them through interactive design workshops.

 

For an existing building, we assess the actual building’s performance against LEED’s required performance. We then establish a roadmap setting up the necessary building improvements to meet LEED compliance.

 

We are specialized in sustainable building design and experts in building physics and bioclimatic architecture. We only work for projects with tangible environmental goals and all of our projects are either certified or have demonstrated high environmental performance. Although the desired level of certification is up to the client's wishes and the actual architectural proposal level of performance, we guarantee that our services will support your design in achieving at minimum LEED Gold level.