Article: The road to 100 percent accreditation: one firm's sustainable initiative.(THE LEED GUIDE)

As recently as August 2007, Amenta/Emma Architects employed only two LEED Accredited Professionals (AP). The 25-person firm was completing the construction documents for Hartford's only LEED-registered school, designing a mixed-use LEED for Neighborhood Development pilot project, and performing a LEED feasibility study for Central Connecticut State University. Inquiries for LEED and green building design services streamed in from all of the firm's market sectors. Meanwhile, the implementation date loomed ahead for the State of Connecticut's recently approved legislation mandating that all state-funded new construction buildings over $5 million and state-funded renovation ...

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