Use LA/R Plugin to Create LEED 8.1 Credit Submission

Simple steps:

1. Set up model :
   1. Glazing and opaque materials
   2. Phase Filters and Design Options
   3. Turn off transient elements like furniture and vegetation
   4. Define Rooms
2. Run Analysis
3. Generate Results:
   1. Photometric plans - Daylighting floor plans or custom 3d orthographic views

   2. LEED Schedules - Transfer data from the Revit LEED Room and Floor schedules

Detailed explanation of steps:

Model setup

1. Be sure your model's glazing and opaque materials have the correct transparency and reflectivity for the environment. Use either the design values or the standard default values of 85% for ceilings, 60% for walls, and 25% for floors. Glazing should be defined per your design. See Surface and Glazing Material Settings for Illuminance for more information.

   Run the Analysis or continue with model setup.

2. Be sure that if you use Phase Filters or Design Options in your model that the LEED 3d view is set to a phase that shows the 'Complete' model with the desired Design Options. The settings in the automatically created LEED 3d view are used for the analysis. You can do this before or after running the analysis the first time. If you do not have the automatically created LEED 3d view, click Run Analysis to create the view, then cancel the analysis and edit the view.

   After setting up your phase filters and design options, Run the Analysis or continue with model setup.

3. In the LEED 3d view, for best results, turn off furniture, vegetation, and other transient elements in the model with the Visibility/Graphics Overrides or a View Template.

   After setting up your Visibility/Graphics Overrides, Run the Analysis or continue with model setup.

4. Define Rooms in your model using the Room tools in Architecture > Room & Area. You can do this before or after running the analysis the first time, as the analysis results are stored with the floors and the Room calculations are done after the analysis is complete. Define Rooms at least for all areas that will be defined as Regular Occupied, and check them as 'Include in Daylighting.' Use the setting for 'Automate Shades' for rooms that will qualify to ignore the upper threshold due to automated shades that will block direct sun penetration.

   If you have not Run the Analysis, click Run Analysis now. If you have already run the analysis, you do not need to rerun it after making changes to the Rooms.

Photometric plan

1. Click 'Generate Results' to populate the automatic Daylighting plan views and any active 3d views. There are two options here:
   • To create plan views with photometric data for all of the floor areas: Create orthographic 3d plan views for each floor per the instructions here.
   • To use the default Daylighting views, which only show data for the Rooms that are set in the Room parameters to 'Include in Daylighting' (ie Regularly occupied), and are used in the percentage calcs in the schedules, simple use the Floor Plan views created automatically by LA/R. They are named with the level name with the suffix of '-Daylighting.'
2. Either lay those out in a Sheet page, simply print directly from the views, or take a screen shot to use in your own custom layout outside of Revit for the LEED submittal. Up to you.

LEED spreadsheet

1. Click 'Generate Results' to run calculations on the model and to populate the LEED schedules. After results are calculated, a window showing the results for all included rooms in the whole building will be displayed.
2. Use the Revit LEED Room Schedule to define which Rooms are 'Include in Daylighting' and whether they have 'Automated Shades.' You can adjust these settings and Generate Results again without having to rerun a new analysis, as the analysis results are stored for the entire floor area.
3. Use the data from the Revit LEED Room Schedule to fill out the LEED spreadsheet. To make it easier to get the data in the same format as the LEED spreadsheet, you can add additional columns for floor area in each of the threshold percentage categories (above, below and within). These can be calculated columns multiplying the Area of the Room by the appropriate % column. Double check the results of the LEED spreadsheet with the results shown in the Revit LEED Floor Schedule and the summary results window that appears after Generate Results is complete.
4. You can also place these schedules on a Sheet to create a complete presentation including the schedule results and the photometric plan.