The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is planning to revamp its popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system in an effort to make it more user-friendly. USGBC hopes to create, with some exceptions, one LEED system instead of having LEED for residential, for example, and LEED for commercial. It expects to roll out the new system next fall. Another likely change is that LEED will address life cycle analysis, something many of the users would welcome.
USGBC is “harmonizing and aligning credits” across all LEED rating systems, the group says. This will make the system more “adaptive and flexible.” It will still allow additional credits that need to cover existing building types. To accomplish this, USGBC is reorganizing its committee structure. The new structure will focus on technical, market, and certification committees. The market committee will identify market expansion opportunities; the technical committee will steer LEED’s development; and the certification committee will ensure credits deliver on their intent across the rating system.
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