LEED Green Building Rating System

(LEED GBRS)

A voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven, building rating system based on existing proven technology. It represents the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) effort to provide a national standard for what constitutes a “green building.” Through its use as a design guideline and third-party certification tool, it aims to improve occupant well-being, environmental performance, and economic returns of building using established and innovative practices, standards, and technologies.

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The LEED Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S.

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"Industry professionals can use the LCA calculator to help earn points through the LEED green building rating system."

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Pilot credits are a tool for the development and evolution of the LEED green building rating system.

What are pilot credits?

Green Building Council's LEED Green Building Rating System.

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The LEED Green Building Rating System for Commercial Interiors is a set of performance standards for certifying a building's design and construction in order to promote healthy, durable, affordable, and environmentally sound practices in tenant space design and construction.

The Total Office achievement

USGBC's LEED Green Building Rating System was developed to provide the building industry with the necessary tools to design, construct, operate and maintain high-performance and energy-efficient buildings, applicable to essentially every property type throughout the building lifecycle.

High-performance buildings come in all colors: once considered cost-prohibitive, as a result of technological advances, there are now a wide variety of environmentally friendly materials and products available that also may yield greater performance and productivity

The Leed Green Building Rating System recognises sustainable performance in major categories of a construction project and has become one of the most widely used systems in the United States.

Lexan helping 'green' building market

"In terms of its environmentally sustainable construction, the venue is going for gold in the LEED green building rating system. To the best of our knowledge it is the first such venue of this nature to achieve such a standard in its entirety."

Qatar convention centre going for LEED gold

Green Building Council (USGBC) has released the LEED regional credits as part of LEED 2009, the new version of the LEED Green Building Rating System. These LEED credits encourage that specific regional environmental priorities be addressed when it comes to the design, construction and operations of buildings in different geographic locations.

LEED 2009 to include LEED credits for regional environmental priorities

The LEED Green Building Rating System encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.

Data Center design: Form follows function

LEED Certification is awarded once a corporation is in compliance with a particular set of requirements set forth by the LEED Green Building Rating System, an internationally accepted benchmark established by the United States Green Building Council.

Summertown Interiors Applies for LEED Gold Certification