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Simply complying with the code meant meeting all of the LEED prerequisites, as well as earning 20 points worth of credit, making LEED certification easier later. However, this raises the question of whether it necessary to have a separate code if it achieves the same outcome as a LEED certification.
LEED certification is granted by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), which arranges third-party verification of a project's compliance with the LEED requirements. [88] The certification process for design teams consists of the design application, under the purview of the architect and the engineer and documented in the official ...
The same rules apply for mid-size residential buildings, except that the requirement for 75 GreenPoints starts earlier, in 2011. For commercial buildings and high-rise residential buildings, the ordinance adds in requirements from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system. Starting in ...
LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), where "LEED" stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a United States–based rating system that integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into a national system for neighborhood design. LEED certification provides independent, third-party ...
LEED Recertification: For occupied and currently-in-use projects that have already received LEED certification but aiming to maintain and improve the building. LEED Zero : For projects with net-zero goals in carbon emissions and resource use.
The Living Building Challenge is an international sustainable building certification program created in 2006. It is managed by the non-profit International Living Future Institute. [ 1 ] It is described by the Institute as a philosophy, advocacy tool and certification program that promotes the measurement of sustainability in the built ...
For a WELL platinum certification: all the requirements for gold certification plus 80% optimizations. On the other hand, WELL v2 uses a four-certification system that mimics LEED's scoring system. The required preconditions are decreased to only 23 (vs. 41 in v1), and the optimizations rose to 92 (vs. 59 in v1).
The Green Globes certification program was launched in the U.S. in 2005 as an online building design management tool for architects and builders of sustainable commercial buildings. [1] Green Globes originated from a system started in 1990 in the United Kingdom called BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method). In ...