Kaid Benfield over at the NRDC just posted about a video a colleague of his, Eliot Allen of Criterion Planners, created showing how a sustainable development he studied would be scored if it pursued LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND). The video does a great job of breaking complex calculations into a simple, easy to understand format that would be excellent to forward to clients considering the system...
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The video was an informative look at LEED ND. One comment/question I have is with the solar orientation credit for this project. When you consider the project as individual buildings, the orientation is optimal. But when you consider them as a group (one multi-family development) - the orientation does not seem to be optimal because there is more surface area facing E-W than N-S. Does LEED ND reward points for the orientation of individual buildings or clusters of buildings? If it is the former, perhaps more emphasis should be placed on cluster development concerning orientation credits.
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