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Title: LEED Certification


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LEED Certification
  • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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What is LEED?
  • An internationally recognized green building
    certification system which provides third-party
    verification that a building or community was
    designed and built using strategies aimed at
    increasing performance, reducing waste, and
    improving quality of life.

3
LEED 101
  • Created by the U.S. Green Building Council
    (USGBC) in 1998
  • Grown to cover more than 20,000 projects in 50 US
    States and 30 countries
  • LEED impacts anyone involved in building design,
    construction, and operations.

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The USGBC and the GBCI
  • U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
  • Focuses on developing and refining the LEED
    standards
  • Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI)
  • Runs the LEED Building Certification and LEED
    Professional Accreditation programs
  • Ensures the consistency, capacity and integrity
    of the LEED certification process

5
The LEED Rating Systems
  • Grouped into five main categories
  • Building Design Construction
  • Interior Design and Construction
  • Operations Maintenance
  • Homes
  • Neighborhood Development

6
Building Design and Construction
  • Contains five LEED rating systems
  • New buildings and old buildings undergoing major
    renovations
  • Schools, Hospitals, Office Buildings, and
    Apartment Buildings

7
Green Interior Design and Construction
  • Includes LEED Commercial Interiors and LEED
    Retail Interiors
  • Designed specifically for tenants leasing a
    portion of a larger building

8
Green Building Operations and Maintenance
  • Includes LEED for Existing Buildings and LEED
    for Existing Schools
  • The rating systems for existing buildings can be
    used by building owners and operators to measure
    operations and maintenance as well as make minor
    improvements.

9
Homes
  • Designed for single and multi-family residential
    structures that are three stories or less
  •  Modeled after the Environmental Protection
    Agencys successful Energy Star for Homes program
    and became available to the public in 2008.

10
Neighborhood Development
  • Integrates the principles of smart growth,
    urbanism and green building into the first
    national program for neighborhood design
  • Will be released to the public in 2010

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How to achieve certification
  • LEED points are awarded on a 100-point scale
  • Credits are weighted to reflect their potential
    environmental impacts

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What LEED Measures (credit category)
  • Sustainable Sites
  • Water Efficiency
  • Energy Atmosphere
  • Materials Resources
  • Indoor Environmental Quality
  • Locations Linkages
  • Awareness Education
  • Innovation in Design
  • Regional Priority

13
LEED Credentialing Process
  • Green Associate
  • AP with specialty
  • AP Fellow

14
Benefits of a LEED Credential
  • Will provide you with an invaluable overview of
    what exactly green building and sustainable
    development means

15
LEED In the News
  • The home building industry is struggling, but
    one sector is booming green homes. USA Today
  • Building green could add hundreds of billions of
    dollars to the economy, according to a new report
    released by the U.S. Green Building Council.
    New York Times
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  • A new study found that tenants in green
    buildings experience increased productivity and
    fewer sick days. The research also found that
    that green buildings have lower vacancy rates and
    higher rents than non-green counterparts.
    Business Week

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Resources
  • http//www.everblueenergy.com/leed-certification
  • http//www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID1
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