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Sustainability at Scale - LEED Campus Approach & LEED for Cities

  • Green Building Center 67 Bridge Street Lambertville, NJ, 08530 United States (map)

For the last two decades, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Rating system has set the bar for quantifying green buildings. I have used it to certify buildings in almost every version of the rating system, including residential, corporate/commercial, retail, educational, institutional and warehouse projects. While we need to continue to create healthy and environmentally responsible new buildings and renovate our existing building stock to the same standards, we no longer have the time to do one building at a time. This session will explain the oft overlooked LEED for Campus approach that allows groups of pre-requisites and credits to be approved across an entire campus, making them automatically approved for any individual building projects without any further documentation. We will also look at the newest LEED rating system, LEED for Cities and Communities, geared at helping local leaders create and operationalize responsible, sustainable and specific plans for natural systems, energy, water, waste, transportation - revolutionizing the way cities and communities are planned, developed and operated to improve their overall sustainability and quality of life. Lastly, we will review the ARC platform, formely known as the LEED Dynamic Plaque, which offers property managers, building owners and tenants the first of a kind real-time performance tracking and certification methodology to increase the sustainability of more existing buildings as well as manage the ongoing performance of new ones. This course will qualify for 1.5 AIA and GBCI CEU. The Green Building Center is an approved AIA CEU Provider.