USGBC

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U.S. Green Building Council
People
Address 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 300
Washington, District of Columbia, 20036 USA
Telephone 1-800-795-1747 or 202-742-3792
Fax 1-202-828-5110
Email info@usgbc.org
Web Site http://www.usgbc.org/
Type of Organization non-profit, environmental education, advocacy, and development.
Members Architects

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[edit] Discussion

"The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a non-profit organization composed of leaders from across the building industry working to advance buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Driving its mission to transform the built environment is the Council’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™. LEED is a third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED is accessible on-line and supported by a robust LEED Workshop program and the LEED Professional Accreditation program." - USGBC

[edit] Participation

As of April 2008, the US Green Building Council reported the following statistics about LEED certifications.

  • Member Organizations: 14,624
  • Engaged individuals: 91,000
  • LEED Accredited Professionals: 49,762
  • LEED Registered Projects: 10,310
  • LEED Certified Projects: 1,327

Source: "Green Building by the Numbers" - USGBC, 2008.04.

[edit] LEED

LEED is a building rating and accreditation system used to quantitatively evaluate building performance based on a wide range of criteria.

"LEED is a third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2000 through a consensus based process, LEED serves as a tool for buildings of all types and sizes. LEED certification offers third party validation of a project’s green features and verifies that the building is operating exactly the way it was designed to." USGBC

[edit] Certification Levels

[edit] Rating Systems by Construction Type

  • LEED for New Construction
  • LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance
  • LEED for Commercial Interiors
  • LEED for Core & Shell
  • LEED for Homes
  • LEED for Neighborhood Development

[edit] LEED Versions

Periodic major revisions and refinements are made to the LEED rating systems. The most recent release, LEED version 3, or LEED v3, included a a new release of the LEED Online certification system, a major alignment of the commercial LEED rating systems along with a continuous improvement process, and launch of the LEED v2009 versions of those commercial LEED systems. In response to concerns that LEED's requirements are cumbersome and difficult to learn, in 2009 USGBC supported the development by BuildingGreen, LLC of LEEDuser, a third-party resource that contains tips and guidance, written by professionals in the field, on applying LEED credits and the LEED certification process.[1] LEEDuser

[edit] History

[edit] References

  • "Passive House Divided" by Christine MacDonald, ArchitectureWeek No. 545, 2012.0111, p E1.1
  • "FSC Versus SFI" by Christine MacDonald, ArchitectureWeek No. 439, 2009.0812, p E1.1.
  • "Green or Greenwashed?" by Christine MacDonald, ArchitectureWeek No. 424, 2009.0422, p E1.1.
  • "Hello LEED v3!" by Amanda Sturgeon, ArchitectureWeek No. 423, 2009.0415, p N1.1.

[edit] External Links

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