LEED certification in China

Amongst all, the lack of skill, common design pratices and manufactured products are key issues encoutered by sustainbility practitioners in China.

Steve, those same issues are issues with encountered for U.S. projects. LEED is a foreign language to many of the, very smart, A&E teams I work with. Lack of engineering LEED skill has no bearing on where you end up with a LEED rating. Lack of experience, maybe. LEED skills can be taught. If I can get low-bid public works contractors to help document projects at the highest LEED level then it is possible to do the same anywhere in the World. If I can help an engineer, who has never worked on a LEED project is in the lower half of engineers based on skills, earn more credits than an engineer with LEED skills and hard-LEED experience, then it is possible to turn for a committed engineer to achieve the highest LEED project levels anywhere in the world. U.S. know-how is not mandatory for LEED. You have to learn the system, which you can only do by the doing the documentation yourself, as much as possible: sweat equity. You have to suffer and spend a lot of your free time fighting for what you believe in: on the job, unpaid, learning investment. You have to know enough about A&E design to direct people with exactly what they to do: a jack of all trades, master or none. It can be done. I wish the best for people in all countries in the World with their LEED and green projects. I will consider it a happy day when another country achieves more higher level green projects than the U.S.A.