Posts Tagged ‘LEED’
LEED 2009 is currently in the Comment Process. If the process goes as planned , the final version of LEED 2009 will be presented at the GreenBuild Conference and Expo in Boston November 19-21 2008 and launched in January 2009.
Curious about the changes?
See the
LEED 2009 Vision & Executive Summary (pdf).
See and listen to a 26minutes [...]
“LEED 2009″ focuses on energy and carbon performance of buildings, transparent “weightings” and regional LEED credits
On May 19th the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) opened the first public comment period on LEED 2009, the next evolution of the LEED green building certification system. LEED 2009 represents a reorganization of the existing LEED rating systems for [...]
Ever heard about the UK BREEAM system or the German Building Passport and want to compare them to the LEED rating system approach?
Here is an international Survey of Life-Cycle Assessment Tools, Assessment Frameworks, Rating Systems,Technical Guidelines, Catalogues, Checklists and Certificates. It is not the most up-to-date information (final revisions 2004) but it’s a good start [...]
The U.S. Green Building Council established an innovation point for specification of products certified under the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certification program.
Find more details here.
Find a list of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified Products here.
Watch a video of William McDonough on cradle to cradle design.
The U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL offers Online Courses and Webinars regarding various LEED topics and technical trainings .
 USGBC: Online Courses & Webinars
This directory provides information on over 300 building software tools from around the world. The list includes very specialized tools as well as whole-building energy performance simulation programs. You can browse the directory by by computer platform, country or subject (e.g. energy simulation, codes + standards, materials + components, pollution, indoor air quality …).
Building Energy [...]
Building Green Inc. has teamed up with Google and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) to create an interactive map for Google Earth. You can explore a collection of over 80 3D building models of buildings in DOE’s High Performance Buildings Database including a description and links to full case studies.
Download Great Green Buildings Google [...]
Greenspace’s Demeter plugin expands the benefits of using Google Sketchup for early stage building design. Demeter provides Google’s Sketchup with the ability to energy analyse a building model within seconds. Demeter also allows for the importing and exporting of the industry standard file format, gbXML, allowing models from many different sources to be viewed, edited [...]
