Ashleigh Clyde
Ashleigh Clyde
Jill Maltby-Abbott, AIA, WELL AP, LFA
Jill Maltby-Abbott, AIA, WELL AP, LFA
A More Efficient Process for Achieving both LEED and WELL
The new, more streamlined process allows teams to use LEED v4 or v4.1 credit documentation to earn WELL v2 features and vice versa. Users will only need to submit proof once.
by P.J. Melton
How do you like reinventing the wheel?
In the green building world, there are dozens of strategies and approaches that have to be figured out project by project, team by team, over and over again.
Sometimes this makes sense: every building is different.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
Comment Here: Second Public Draft on v4 Energy Stringency
USGBC has tweaked proposed changes to credit language that would introduce harder energy (and new carbon) requirements for v4 BD+C and ID+C.
by P.J. Melton
It’s time to bring LEED v4—first released a decade ago and still very much in use—up to speed on current code expectations for energy performance. Proposed new metrics for the Optimize Energy Performance credit would also require project teams to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from operations in tandem with reductions in energy consumption.
Rare Documentation Samples for Whole-Building Life-Cycle Assessment
A life-science developer and WSP have shared detailed WBLCA documentation, providing insight into the v4.1 process and submittal requirements.
by P.J. Melton
When LEED v4 first arrived on the scene in 2013, it newly incentivized whole-building life-cycle assessment (WBLCA) that could demonstrate significant reductions in the project’s carbon footprint.
Whole-Building Life-Cycle Assessment Samples
Whole-building LCA report and narrative for a v4.1 core and shell project
Samples
Samples
Ada Fran Maman
Ada Fran Maman
Buck Dodgers
Buck Dodgers