This MPR is intended to keep out buildings that are intended to be mobile - not those with short life spans. Although we don't wish to encourage short-term construction, buildings with planned...

Implementing LEED requirements during construction is a balancing act: provide too little information, guidance, or follow-up and some things will fall between the cracks, but if you provide too...

Yes, the best resource for this as far as LEED is concerned is CS Appendix 1 from the BD&C LEED Reference Guide. It gives default occupancy counts for different space types.

I agree this is a step in the right direction, and can think of some refinements that might go further. Pardon my long response.

Two of the barriers to implementing LEED are uncertainty...

Thank you for the buildinggreen post. I work for a company that does a lot of new building...

In my experience it runs the gamut... some project teams aren't aware of them, but then they hit some budget shortfall and are looking for extra money to meet LEED goals, and they find out about...

I've seen questions like this in other contexts, especially with projects wanting to get a green certification reflecting what takes place in the building, not just the design of the building...

Elizabeth, there's a bunch of information on what USGBC is calling the Building Performance Partnership on their website. Also,...

Sean, there is some guidance on non-contiguous project boundaries in the MPR Supplemental Guidance doc that you may find helpful....

i have no experience in submitting Ergonomic design for ID credit but i get to know that there was a...