The LEED certification has become the “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval for green buildings. The LEED rating system focuses on requirements for green building design and layout.

U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) V3, the certification bodies for the LEED Green Building Rating System were recently announced. Well-known ...

January 1st quarterly addenda to the LEED rating systems and reference guides are now available. There are 71 new LEED Interpretations (10292, 10298—10367), including 65 for Homes and Multifamily ...

What Preservationists Should Know About LEED The LEED rating system doesn’t give much weight to the idea of preserving an existing structure, even if the building happens to be of cultural or ...

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is in the process of revising the Green Building Rating Scoring System used to determine Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The ...

The controversy over LEED has spilled over into the federal buildings sector. In late 2010, the U.S. General Services Administration—which has more than 361 million sq ft of space in 9,600 ...

The U.S. Green Building Council will soon launch the first-ever LEED rating system for health care that awards points not only for environmental benefits but also for efforts to improve human ...

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UCSF recently celebrated its first project officially certified by the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. UC campuses are required to ...

In LEED 2009, the minimum ENERGY STAR rating is 69. More than 90% of LEED EB-certified projects earned an ENERGY STAR score of 75 or above, according to USGBC.