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Saturday, June 9, 2012

What is LEED?

I had a few questions regarding "what is LEED?"

The LEED site says it pretty good:

"LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building, home or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality."

For the source of the information, here is LEED's site.

LEED counts some really wonderful things & passes up opportunities in other areas.  For this reason, we weren't looking for LEED certification, as we were using a higher standard. 

1 comment:

  1. We've been in touch with a LEED Green Rater and we think we're going to go for it! Whhoo HHoooo!

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