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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their buildings’ performance. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. How is LEED Developed? The LEED Rating System was created to transform the built environment to sustainability by providing the building industry with consistent, credible standards for what constitutes a green building. The rating system is developed and continuously refined via an open, consensus-based process that has made LEED the green building standard of choice for Federal agencies and state and local governments nationwide. |
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LEED Categories New construction: LEED for New Construction and Major Renovations (LEED-NC) is designed to guide and distinguish high-performance commercial and institutional projects, with a focus on office buildings. Practitioners have also applied the system to K-12 schools, multi-unit residential buildings, manufacturing plants, laboratories and many other building types. |
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New Construction Case Studies PFPC, Inc Toyota Motor Sales Existing Buildings: LEED for Existing Buildings provides a recognized, performance-based benchmark for building owners and operators to measure operations, improvements and maintenance on a consistent scale. Commercial Interiors: LEED for Commercial Interiors gives the power to make sustainable choices to tenants and designers, who do not always have control over whole building operations. Core and Shell: The LEED Green Building Rating System for Core and Shell Development is for designers, builders, developers and new building owners who address sustainable design for new core and shell construction. Broadly defined, core and shell construction covers base building elements, such as the structure, envelope and building-level systems, such as central HVAC, etc. The LEED for Core and Shell product recognizes that the division between owner and tenant responsibility for certain elements of the building varies between markets Core and Shell Case Studies Banner Bank The Brewery Blocks Homes: The LEED for Homes program is being developed by the USGBC with input from local and national stakeholder groups. It is a voluntary initiative promoting the transformation of the mainstream home building industry towards more sustainable practices. It will provide a much- needed tool for homebuilders, homeowners, and local governments for building environmentally sound, healthy, and resource-efficient places to live. Neighborhood Development: The Neighborhood Development rating system will integrate the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design. Whereas other LEED products focus primarily on green building practices, with only a few credits regarding site selection, LEED for Neighborhood Development will emphasize smart growth aspects and neighborhood design of development while still incorporating a selection of the most important green building practices. Guided by the Smart Growth Network's ten principles of smart growth and the Charter for New Urbanism it will include compact design, proximity to transit, mixed use, mixed housing type, and pedestrian- and bicycle- friendly design. In short, LEED for Neighborhood Development will create a label which could serve as a concrete signal of, and incentive for, better location, design, and construction of neighborhoods and buildings. |
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