Good riddance

Eric Johnson

Sustainable Cost Solutions LLC

LEEDuser Premium Member

195 thumbs up

August 18, 2011

The case: Everyone's time would be better spent on actually creating better performing buildings than clogging up the court system with frivolous lawsuits. Where LEED is going: As they (USGBC) say it's a case of continuous improvement and through various measures I think LEED is addressing the projected and actual energy usage problem.

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James Thornton

Project Manager, Commissioning Group

ccrd

LEEDuser Basic Member

17 thumbs up

Thu, 08/18/2011 - 18:47

I think this is unfortunately one of several of these sorts of issues with LEED that people will try to sort out through litigation. I certainly don't think it will be the last one. This process is changing our industry. There will be winners and losers. Some of those losers will have been winners in the old paradigm and they will try to protect their turf, because they have too much vested not to act. The ruling just addressed a narrow issue, and I am fairly certain from some of the other publications I read that there are lawyers that see LEED as an increasingly profitable venue for them. Whether they attack the USGBC as Gifford did, or attack practitioners remains to be seen. I think it will tend more toward the latter.