Award winners represent excellence in sustainability, leadership and innovation
Helena, Mont.—(Feb. 9, 2017)—Today, USGBC Montana announced the winners of its Sustainability...
Interested in becoming a LEED Fellow or know someone else who would be a great candidate? USGBC's call for nominations of qualified applicants is now open for the 2017 class of LEED Fellows.
"LEED Fellow" designates the most exceptional professionals in the green building industry, and it is the most prestigious designation awarded by GBCI. Here are the answers to some of the questions you may have about applying for the LEED Fellow...
In the LEED Lab course, students participate in the entire LEED O+M process, choosing one building on their campus that they work toward certifying. These students facilitate the full certification timeline, taking...
USGBC's LEED v4 Reference Guides show you how to navigate a LEED project from registration through certification. As the first stop for project teams, they offer:
The Center for Green Schools at USGBC now offers a how-to guide for organizing in-person workshops at your school. Use this guide to empower school stakeholders to transform the learning environment. The guide, ...
In this series, USGBC experts will share thoughts on the advent of Arc and what it means for the future of LEED and a better built environment:...
With the new administration taking shape, the future form of the much-debated Clean Power Plan is unclear, though change is certain. However, there are still many opportunities for...
This article is the first in a four-part series about demand response.
Energy use has long been a focus of USGBC. Historically, LEED energy use strategies focused on efficiency: reducing the amount of energy used to perform...
Over his 20-year career as an architect, Bill Worthen worked to better connect policy, practice and design through the power of collaboration, sustainability and storytelling. To the world, he was a...
After months of receiving proposals, committee deliberation and merging proposals together, USGBC Colorado is excited to officially announce the 2017...
You want the best courses, and we've got them. Check out this month's selection of three courses to grow your LEED, green building and sustainability knowledge.
In January, increase your knowledge of key concepts in...
The annual PACENation Summit is the only national conference focused completely on property assessed clean energy. This year’s conference will take place Feb. 13–15 in Denver, Colorado, and is on track to have over 450 attendees...
Where are institutions pursuing LEED Lab?
We are excited to announce that with the start of a new semester, we have added five new universities and one new country to our list of institutions participating in LEED...
The January 2017 quarterly LEED rating system and reference guide addenda is now available.
To view the changes:
LEED has become the international standard for the design, construction and operation of high-performance structures. Curious about what makes LEED v4 different? It's designed to up the ante with a more flexible, performance-based...
