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Green Building Rating System For New Construction & Major Renovations ®(LEED -NC) Version 2.2 First Public Comment Draft December 2004 NOTE TO REVIEWERS Thank you for participating in the first public comment period for the LEED Green Building Rating System for New Construction, Version 2.2. Any member of the public may comment on this rating system, provided that the individual has registered a user profile on our website. The previous revision, Version 2.1, addressed only process and documentation issues and was not required by the bylaws and Foundations Document to be balloted. Version 2.2 contains substantive changes to credits and does require balloting. The process of developing Version 2.2 was started over a year ago. The direction and charge that the LEED-NC Committee was given for this version is as follows: 1. To fix known problems with selected LEED-NC v.2.1 credits 2. To clarify the intent of selected credits 3. To clarify the performance standards for selected credits 4. To expedite these edits 5. To put the recommended changes to membership vote in 2004 Additional guidelines included staying within the present credit structure of 69 points; no points can be added or removed until NC version 3. The main sources of information for the version 2.2 revisions were drawn from market and stakeholder reaction to LEED-NC version 2.1 and the Credit Interpretation Request process. The changes that are ...