All buildings are designed to the highest level of green standard—LEED for Homes—incorporating a wide range of complementary green strategies. Save this picture!© Brian Rose The 12-story Mosler Lofts designed by Mithun,were the first LEED Silver certified condos in Seattle. An example of ...
With over 16,797,000 square feet (1,560,500 m2), the recently opened City Center Las Vegas has become one of the largest LEED certified projects in...
Living Building Challenge certified: Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Laboratory. Image © Flansburgh Architects TheLiving Building Challengewill now fulfill the energy and water requirements forLEED. As the U.S. Green Building Council announced, this marks an important step in the USGBC's mission t...
It’s also fragmented. The LEED-ND system might rate your neighborhood asPlatinumwhile all but turning a blind eye to the true sustainability of the buildings within your neighborhood. And you can build a Platinum house or office in a place that is hideously unsustainable. The Anti-LEED rating...
My response was frank: “No, not really.LEEDdoesn’t work here in rural Africa.” LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and has become the most recognized standard for “green” building in over 30 countries worldwide.LEEDis a point system that grades buildings through...
This has led some buildings to forego LEED altogether. While LEED certifiable, Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center, didn’t become certified “because it could have added as much as $75,000 to the cost, just for the paperwork,” according to Ken Leinbach, the center’s executive director. [...
HOK's Mercedes-Benz Stadium is officially the first LEED Platinum certified professional sports stadium in the United States.
Designed by the trio of Consortium Labonté Marcil, Cardinal Hardy and Eric Pelletier architectes, the library is situated in the city’s Saint-Laurent district, and received the distinction as an example of “buildings that are environmentally responsible and promote the health and wellbeing ...
Living Building Challenge certified: Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Laboratory. Image © Flansburgh Architects TheLiving Building Challengewill now fulfill the energy and water requirements forLEED. As the U.S. Green Building Council announced, this marks an important step in the USGBC's miss...
My response was frank: “No, not really.LEEDdoesn’t work here in rural Africa.” LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and has become the most recognized standard for “green” building in over 30 countries worldwide.LEEDis a point system that grades buildings through...