LEED for Homes Checklist courtesy CaGBC
The checklist will help you understand the requirements for each LEED category, and help you decide on your targeted level of certification. It will not only be used for the evaluation of your project, but you can use it for tracking your progress. The checklist will allow you to:
Yes, any homeowner or builder is allowed to submit the application and manage the build without being a LEED AP (Accredited Professional), or even having a LEED AP on your design team. You could receive a point towards certification by having an AP on your design team, but it isn't mandatory. Here is a page to get you started -
How to build a LEED Certified Home
What you need to do first is contact a LEED provider in your region, it is with them that you will make your submission and they will perform a preliminary rating to see if how your design would score. This step allows you to see where your design falls on the point scale, and to see if changes are necessary to help you meet your own targeted goal.
Below are some pages that may be of value depending on how familiar you already are with the rating system. We built the first LEED v4 Platinum house in Canada a few years ago (linked below); in there you can find your way to the video guide we created following its construction, that may be of value to you as well. Also check out the following pages, best of luck!
Hi Alyne, We have a number of prefab modular Kit houses that can meet LEED or Passive House performance standards here on this page -
LEED and Passive House ready prefab modular kit houses for Canada and the US
We can't get you one right way in Washington but we are hoping to be able to supply energy efficient prefab houses to the West Coast in US and Canada in the near future. If you fill out the 'request a quote' form that can be found on each different model you can get more info on particular house designs, and we will be able to send you an email when there are some available in your region. How soon are you building?
The best way to insulate a basement floor that is not currently level would of course be to first level it. In your case though, as it is sloped to a drain, do you have another plan to deal with any bulk water that may accumulate on the floor? If you were adding stone to bring it to level, would you not want to leave the drain, or is it not working at this point? I’m wondering what your plan is to deal with any potential bulk water that may accumulate, do you have a sump pump?
But for the meat of your question, yes, you could level it with stone, I would get small stone to make your job easier, like 3/8ths perhaps. If the drain will no longer be in use, you could also do it with self levelling concrete.
As for finishing and insulating, yes, a vapour barrier at that point would be necessary as there would not have been one with the initial construction.
The sleepers would mean a break in the insulation, but if you don’t have them you may find the floor rather spongy.
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