The Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, which opened in August 2015, was awarded gold certification from LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a building rating system created by the USGBC that is used internationally to classify buildings by their level of sustainability. In ...

What LEED Certification Means LEED (Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design) Certified buildings generally use 25% less energy and have 36% fewer emissions compared to the national average, and ...

The LEED system issues points to developers for making certain sustainability improvements to buildings, such as installing electric vehicle charging stations and biking facilities. There are four ...

San Diego County’s newly opened Public Health Laboratory in Kearny Mesa has earned platinum certification, the highest possible rating, from the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program. The ...

Miami also received its 27 th LEED Silver certification for the renovation of Stanton Hall, a residence hall on South Quad. As of 2021, Miami’s 32 LEED Gold-and Silver-certified buildings account for ...

Carbon-neutral buildings are not new news, but the first-ever LEED-platinum carbon neutral building certainly is. The Aldo Leopold Foundation Headquarters, located in Wisconsin, has been certified ...