USGBC raised the bar, but then lowered it again? The bottom line is that LEED v4 is an unworkable standard for most building owners and facility managers, significantly raising costs for LEED certification without adding any additional benefits. Don't you think we can expect to see another extension in 2016 or a significant modification to the standard?
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Bill Swanson
Sr. Electrical EngineerIntegrated Design Solutions
LEEDuser Expert
734 thumbs up
October 29, 2014 - 9:33 am
Market transformation succumbs to market share. Maybe if they push it back far enough we'll get V5 out. But then v4 was suppose to solve all of the v2009 issues and that has worked so well.
Eric Johnson
271 thumbs up
October 29, 2014 - 9:54 am
Friendly competitor or nemesis? Stay classy.
Lida Lewis
HKS Director of Wellbeing Design| IIDA, WELL Faculty, WELL AP, LEED AP ID+C
42 thumbs up
October 29, 2014 - 12:45 pm
Jerry Yudelson, the commenter above, is the President of Green Building Initiative (GBI), the administrator of the Green Globes system.
Barry Giles
Founder & CEO, LEED Fellow, BREEAM FellowBuildingWise LLC
LEEDuser Expert
338 thumbs up
October 29, 2014 - 2:26 pm
As far as LEED EB is concerned there are NO difficulties with version 4. Of course there are a few credits that still require tweaking but on the whole the USGBC have done a great job with EB in version 4
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
October 29, 2014 - 9:08 pm
Great to hear, Barry. You are speaking from direct knowledge, having led the team certifying the first EBOM v4 Platinum project.
Hernando Miranda
OwnerSoltierra LLC
344 thumbs up
November 11, 2014 - 12:20 pm
I agree with Jerry. He was one of the people who understood that incremental change (v2.0, 2.1, 2.2,...) was the way to keep a standard moving upwards, and not overwhelming the market.
Going from LEED 2009 to LEED v4 in one massive change was a mistake. LEED v2 and v2009 did not change as much from prior versions as v4 changed v2009.