The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green-building rating system has four levels of certification: certified, silver, gold and platinum.

Twelve years ago, the U.S. Green Building Council launched a rating system called LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, hoping that architects, engineers, designers and real ...

January 1st quarterly addenda to the LEED rating systems and reference guides are now available. There are 71 new LEED Interpretations (10292, 10298—10367), including 65 for Homes and Multifamily ...

LEED applicants are scored from 0 to 100 based on 110 possible points, a little less than one-fifth of which have to do with energy use. ... be it LEED or equivalent rating system, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An eco-friendly building rating system that has powered a green arms race across the nation now faces a challenge from policymakers and an upstart rival. LEED, the longstanding ...

The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system is the gold standard for environmental design. But more than 800 LEED-certified buildings are at risk from climate-related disasters.

But LEED certifies new buildings before they are even occupied, basing its ratings on computer models that often end up overestimating a building’s performance.

PORTLAND, Ore. — An eco-friendly building rating system that has powered a green arms race across the nation now faces a challenge from policymakers and an upstart rival. LEED, the longstanding ...

The cost of building a LEED gold building amounted to roughly $590,000 of the total $25.5 million cost, or about 2 percent, according to Hutton. The local Community Office of Resource Efficiency, or ...

Largest Triad LEED-Certified Projects Ranked by Square feet of project Locally Researched by: Carl Wilson, 336-370-2915, [email protected] Nov 08, 2024, 6:00am EST ...