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Article: Racing into the development market: the new LEED Core and Shell Rating System encourages high-performance real estate development.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
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- July 1, 2006
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Forget everything you know about LEED.
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That's how the members of the LEED Core and Shell Committee view the results of our five-year effort to bring to life the newest LEED Rating System--officially known as the LEED Green Building Rating System for Core and Shell Development (LEED-CS).
Custom-designed to encourage high-performance, green approaches and practices in speculative real-estate development, LEED-CS extends the USGBC's practical market-based approach into a sector it had previously underserved. A review of the process that led to the creation of this new consensus rating system will show not only how LEED-CS ...