Perhaps we LEEDuser members can show our support of this concept through agreeing with Tristans open letter. This kind of information can help us understand what works and what does not. We...

I wish to pay the fee and register with LEEDonline (v3) a project about a real building that is to be designed and constructed, but the owner is not interested in obtaining any LEED certification...

The Minnesota USGBC chapter evaluated the operational energy and water performance for all LEED certified buildings in our state.

You can find our report here:
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If you were to break out new buildings, especially offices, and compare them to the "best achievable" results in common practice today, i.e., below 40 kBTU/sq.ft./year, you would find the average...

Interesting that there are more data details in my 2013 book, The World's Greenest Buildings:Promise vs Performance in Sustainable Design (Routledge), privately funded and researched, than there...

Hi,
when will it be possible to register a new project under the LEED v4? Thank you in advance for any response.

Leah-
I worked on a project were the original intent was to have the building owned by a developer and a single tenant rent out the entire building. The developer wanted to pursue LEED...

think about it Bill [Walsh]...I think we are lucky to finally have a forum for this kind of discussion. "The role of the USGBC never has been to dictate the proverbial "answer", that is not our job. Instead we give the industry the tools, the process, and the forum within which they can arrive at the answer for themselves." The consensus process is the fundamental function of USGBC per its CEO. It creates a forum, a process. And it looks like they have applied for ANSI Accreditation to fight the claim made by AHPBC. http://www.usgbc.org/Docs/Archive/General/Docs1103.pdf...

While it's been 'fun' to have numerous comment periods, extensive and detailed discussions about the most miniscular of LEED subjects...Oh boy am I pleased that the landslide bought that to an...

Has there been an official update concerning the sunset dates for v2009 ?

Currently the latest USGBC publication, LEED Certification Policy Manual, does not state anything (published jan...