"I can't understand what you wrote there in #13, @Snoonyb. My foreign friends tell me English is a tough language though, so I don't hold it against you, and I'm up with the baby so I have time to try and pick this apart..."
It can be, especially when you attempt to read to much into it.
"I'd think the the individual application, in the cert. process, would be determining,
"Translation: "it depends on how the process of applying for certification goes."
Translation;The cert. process, and the rigors there-in, are determined by the class of Building.
"Theoretically you could build to LEED specs without applying for certification. In fact I wasn't even thinking about the certification side of things since it has nothing to do with efficiency."
Foresothe, it has everything to do with efficiecncy, remember the point of this thred is energy efficiency and the acronym "green".
"Maybe it has to do with your ability to advertise the house as built to LEED specs when you go to sell it? But I hear ya, paperwork is annoying."
I'm talking about commercial buildings, and I would never subordinate my human rights to some group of ner-do-wells who have never been subjected to title 24, except to make it cost prohibitive.
"I have no idea what that means, but it's possible you were trying to say something like "ultimately it depends whether the benefits outweigh the costs." That's a truism and doesn't really add anything of substance to what you wrote, but it's not wrong I guess."
"The resolution would, as always, risk-reward."
KISS principle; money in, money out.