LEED
What is LEED and why is it important? Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is a voluntary, national rating system for buildings. LEED emphasizes using state of the art strategies to encourage sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. Project certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building project meets the highest green building and performance measures. Not only do LEED-certified projects make sense for the environment, but they also make good financial sense by:
CoStar Study Finds Energy Star, LEED Bldgs. Outperform Peers A new study by CoStar Group has found that sustainable "green" buildings outperform their non-green peer assets in key areas such as occupancy, sale price and rental rates, sometimes by wide margins. click here to read the full article... Rapid adoption of LEED certification is evident in the Pacific Northwest One hundred and twenty-five LEED certified buildings were on record in Oregon and Washington as of September 2007. What exactly is LEED? Learn More Energy Performance of LEED® for New Construction Buildings With the recent exponential growth in annual LEED certifications, the number of occupied LEED buildings now permits meaningful studies of how measured performance meets the overall program objective of more efficient buildings. |
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