For those who are green-minded and wish to make their habitat more sustainable, look no further. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) sketched a roadmap on how to do it, launching their high ...

The resource and others released during Climate Week aim to highlight levers building operators can pull to manage emissions.

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 ...

LEED v5, the newest version of the U.S. Green Building Council's green building rating system, launched at the end of April, ushering in a number of changes that could affect facility managers and ...

A New Jersey court recently reversed a variance issued by a zoning board to a building designed to achieve LEED Gold certification. The owner of the planned office building sought and obtained site ...

Barton Group headquarters in Glen Falls, New York, which achieved a LEED Platinum rating. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited ...

The national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) fails to encourage developers to include affordable housing in new developments. Nicola Szibbo, PhD, a ...

A voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings The Searle Chemistry Laboratory will be the first building at the University of Chicago to ...

LEED rates all buildings across five major categories of concern, using key environmental attributes in each category. LEED collects and incorporates a wide variety of best practices across many ...

DEFINITION: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified buildings have demonstrated energy conservation and addressed concerns for site development, water savings, energy efficiency, ...

It is the highest possible certification level within the rating system, symbolizing sustainability leadership, offering ...

Sandy Wiggins, Scott Chrisner, and Anthony Sblendorio discuss how LEED evolved to become the common language and roadmap for measuring green within the building industry. The U.S. Green Building ...