This story first appeared on BuildingGreen. 355 11th Street: The Matarozzi/Pelsinger Multi-Use Building Aidlin Darling Design San Francisco, California With an outstanding 2013 line-up, the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment (AIA/COTE) Top Ten Green Projects continues in its role as the nation’s premier showcase of projects that marry good design and green performance. This year’s projects continue the strong focus from 2012 on social consciousness. “This group of projects underscored the social value of providing high functioning buildings for people who are often without the benefit of that,” notes juror Gail Vittori of the Center for Maximum

In response to growing concerns from the market, USGBC is postponing plans to ballot the next version of LEED until 2013. The committees have been anticipating these changes for a long time, after the decision with LEED 2009 to minimize technical changes and focus on the reorganization and weighting of the credit structure. As a result, the credit requirement changes in the proposed LEED v4 rating system are the most extensive in LEED’s twelve-year history. Image courtesy KPF The KPF-designed BASF headquarters recently achieved double LEED Platinum certification, reflecting support for LEED 2009 from one of the largest chemical companies

In response to growing concerns from the market, USGBC is postponing plans to ballot the next version of LEED until 2013. In a surprise move, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced this week that it is postponing plans to ballot the next version of LEED until as late as June 2013. With this announcement, USGBC promises to keep LEED 2009 available for a full three years from now, although it intends to gradually ramp up incentives for teams to move to the new version of LEED during that time. Image courtesy KPF The KPF-designed BASF headquarters recently achieved double