This is great, because it will not only maximise the potential of creating greener buildings using LEED as the guide, but also solve so many problems and headaches during the LEED certification project process.

However, since the Architects are the main sales force in the industry, they've usually finished schematic design just so they can present to the owner in the competition phase against other Architects and then they are the ones to present LEED to the owner AND / OR the owner has already bought the site.

By the time the LEED AP hears about the project, site selection is a foregone conclusion and not the Architect or the Owner has the faintest idea what it means to make a LEED building.

Somehow this plan needs to get to all potential owners even before the Architect does...maybe we should be approaching the banks with some green education. If they're not the owners themselves, they most often have the power to lend on specific terms to potential owners.

The same goes for forcing BIM down onto project members from the owner.