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Sources, calculations, and the decisions behind a defensible credit review.
How BD+C v5 MRc4 Building Product Selection is scored: product documentation, the multi-attribute score, why a plain EPD is worth only 1, and the July 2026 addenda that clarifies the full-category denominator.
Read articleHow BD+C v5 EAc1 Electrification is actually scored: why an all-electric building can still miss the 1.8 COP weighted-average gate, what the COP calculation excludes, and why the low-temperature combustion allowance lives in Option 2 rather than the five-point option.
How BD+C v5 EAc4 is actually structured: on-site, new off-site, and certificate tiers, the capacity path to the first points that is not a percentage, and where the resource data comes from before a design exists.
A well-written prompt can get an LLM to describe LEED compliance convincingly. That is not the same as producing a submittal-ready answer. Here is the gap, and what closes it.
A CFD solver passes more tests, but pretty contour matches do not equal validated physics. How VERTIQ's indoor airflow engine separates promoted gates from diagnostic-only references, and why that boundary is the entire point.
LEED projects do not lose time to CFD itself. They lose time to CFD claims that fall apart in review. How VERTIQ's tight CFD scope and promoted-versus-diagnostic boundary protects consultants from fake precision.
The technical analysis keeps getting faster, but documentation has not kept up. A look at where the time actually goes and what can be done about it.
A practical breakdown of every major change between LEED v4.1 and v5 - new prerequisites, restructured credits, embodied carbon mandates, and what it all means for your workflow.
VERTIQ reduces LEED documentation work by automating drawing analysis, energy modeling inputs, and credit evidence workflows. Built on peer-reviewed research and tested on real project files.