The Pharos Project connects you to a network of building professionals and manufacturers committed to transparency as a core value on the path to sustainability. Pharos is not a certification or label, it is information; the critical health and environmental data about the manufacture, use, and end of life of building materials specified and used [...]
“LEED for Neighborhood Design (LEED-ND) is approved to become a permanent certification program.
The Congress for the New Urbanism, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Smart Growth America, and the US Green Building Council have voted to advance LEED-ND from its pilot stage to full-scale operation. It is the first of the Green Building Council’s regular programs [...]
This video demonstrates how to use geospatial slope analysis in evaluating a proposed development site against LEED for Neighborhood Development criteria dealing with protection of steep slopes:
