LEED - For Better or Worse

Thomas Lopes

Project Manger, LEED AP BD+C

SBLM Architects

LEEDuser Basic Member

4 thumbs up

October 27, 2012

I think everyone gets that LEED is driven by incentives – but it’s important to realize that the USGBC and LEED are at the core of a market transformation that has helped establish high performance building standards and green code framework. LEED is not perfect, and because of that its continuously evolving into new versions, such as LEED v4

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Barry Giles

Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM Fellow

BuildingWise LLC

LEEDuser Expert

224 thumbs up

Sun, 10/28/2012 - 15:34

Thomas, excellent concise comment.

Keith Robertson

President

Solterre Inc.

LEEDuser Premium Member

47 thumbs up

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 19:29

Very interesting discussion. Thanks for starting it, Nadav. I am in a jurisdiction (Nova Scotia - CaGBC LEED Canada) that has zero government incentives for LEED - though there are some minor incentives for energy efficiency. I still see significant uptake of LEED for many institutions and government projects - presumably for demonstrating good governance. I also see increasing (though perhaps slower than elsewhere) uptake commercially, where there has been no government incentives to-date. Clearly some developers see other reasons for LEED development - marketing, other financial return, or (heaven forbid) doing the right thing.