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What LEED Certification can mean for you |
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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System TM is a program developed and monitored by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The LEED certification process is a voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven rating system used as a way to evaluate and rate commercial building construction and renovation projects, using a definitive standard for what constitutes a green building. LEED criterion involves a credit point system based on accepted energy and environmental principles evaluating the building over its useful life cycle.
Obtaining LEED certification means that building projects have shown dedication to sustainability by meeting the highest green building performance standards. Obtaining this certification apprises tenants and occupants that measures have been taken to improve indoor air quality, reduce energy usage, increased employee productivity, reduce employee absenteeism and reduce impact on the building’s external environment by utilizing plants to their full potential.
The reliability of the LEED rating has also become a tool used in securing entitlements for some projects, by committing to the local approval agencies that the building will achieve a specified LEED level.
Other benefits that you can obtain with LEED certification include:
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Third party validation of green features.
Enforcement of complete implementation of designed green features.
Third-party rating of degree of sustainability.
Benefit of LEED “brand” association.
Incentives from Public Agencies. |
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