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LEED v4 Extension

Jerry Yudelson

Yudelson Associates

LEEDuser Basic Member

10 thumbs up

October 29, 2014

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 Engineer

Integrated Design Solutions

LEEDuser Expert

516 thumbs up

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 13:33

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

Sustainable Cost Solutions LLC

LEEDuser Premium Member

195 thumbs up

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 13:54

Friendly competitor or nemesis? Stay classy.

Lida Lewis

HKS Director of Wellbeing Design

| IIDA, WELL Faculty, WELL AP, LEED AP ID+C

LEEDuser Basic Member

26 thumbs up

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 16:45

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 Fellow

BuildingWise LLC

LEEDuser Expert

224 thumbs up

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 18:26

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

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

7780 thumbs up

Thu, 10/30/2014 - 01:08

Great to hear, Barry. You are speaking from direct knowledge, having led the team certifying the first EBOM v4 Platinum project.

Hernando Miranda

Owner

Soltierra LLC

LEEDuser Basic Member

231 thumbs up

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 17:20

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.