Article: LEED and the Cabinet Shop II: Finishes for Homes & Libraries.(Coatings)

Article: Green Building And Surface Fabrication: An Inside Look At How LEED Can Play A Role In Your Business.(Tips of the Trade)
Surface Fabrication;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Shell, LEED for Schools and LEED for Homes. Additionally, LEED for Neighborhood Development...communities. Residential Green The LEED for Homes certification system, which...a home. With more than 734 LEED-certified homes and another 12,464 in the...

Article: The green American dream: LEED for Homes is currently being piloted.(Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (United States Green Building Council))
Environmental Design & Construction;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Rating System (LEED NC), USGBC's LEED for Homes will provide homebuilders and homebuyers...support services to builders of LEED homes. Twelve LEED for Homes providers...available online at www.usgbc.org/leed/homes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GWS was...

Article: Following the LEED for Homes.(FOCUS: ZONING PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News;  May 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......currently testing its new project, LEED for Homes. The pilot demonstration phase...residential structures. The testing of LEED for Homes is scheduled to run through the...towards sustainable practices. LEED for Homes is designed to work towards a national...

Article: Olson Homes' Depot Walk is First Attached New-Home Community in California to Earn LEED(R) Certification
U.S. Newswire;  December 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......housing," said Kristin Shewfelt, LEED Homes Committee Vice Chairwoman. LEED for...formal responsibility for rating LEED Homes. Olson Homes is working with Davis...website at http:// www.usgbc.org/leed/homes. The USGBC is a nonprofit, consensus-bas...

Article: LEED-ing them home: as 'green' reshapes the residential market, the floor seems a good place to start.
National Floor Trends;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Council is set to formally launch a LEED for Homes rating system that will look at...The widely held consensus is that LEED for Homes can't come soon enough. NFT spoke...emerge on the market because of LEED for Homes, predicted Barb Fraser, manager...

Article: Part one of six: the past, present & future of sustainable housing design.(Building Your Sustainable Home: Applying the principles of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) to your new home)
Natural Life;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Green Building Council (CaGBC). LEED was initially targeted at commercial...residential construction. The U.S. LEED for Homes program is in place and the...next year. The manner in which LEED has been accepted by private...way available today, based on LEED for Homes., as well as on ...

Article: Is LEED broken?(THE LEED GUIDE)(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
Environmental Design & Construction;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......main claims: 1. LEED costs too much, and the funds used for LEED certification could be used to add more green value to a project instead; 2. LEED certification leads to point mongering among project teams...words); 3. Energy modeling is fiendishly complicated ; 4. LEED has a crippling bureaucracy ...

Article: UNDERSTANDING LEED: TODAY AND TOMORROW
Building Operating Management;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......most people talk about LEED, they're still referring to LEED for New Construction or LEED-NC, the godfather of all the other LEED rating systems. But since LEED-NC arrived, USGBC has developed similar environmental rating...existing buildings, commercial interiors, core and shell, ...

Article: Using LEED to become a green building leader.(Green Building)
Concrete Contractor;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......for schools and residential homes, and pilot programs are under way to help LEED target the specific needs of...LEED for Core & Shell and LEED for Commercial Interiors, for example -- LEED 2009 will consolidate these...effective common denominator. LEED for Homes and the pilot ...

Article: The next generation of LEED.(The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design )
Sustainable Facility;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System...offices, schools, hospitals and homes. During the past eight years, USGBC has moved LEED steadily forward, evolving the...that incremental change to how LEED functions wasn't enough. Instead...bioregional credits that would ...

Article: The next generation of LEED.(THE LEED GUIDE)
Environmental Design & Construction;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System...offices, schools, hospitals and homes. During the past eight years, USGBC has moved LEED steadily forward, evolving the...that incremental change to how LEED functions wasn't enough. Instead...bioregional credits that would ...

Article: How Flooring can apply to LEED.(United States Green Building Council's leadership in energy and environmental design )
Environmental Design & Construction;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......existing office space; and LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) applies to facility management policies and measured performance. Other versions of the rating system, such as LEED for Core and Shell (LEED-CS), LEED for Homes (LEED-H), and LEED for Neighborhood ...

Article: USGBC launches rating system: LEED green building rating system for homes, pilot demonstration.(SPECIALTY NEWS & TRENDS)
Qualified Remodeler;  September 1, 2005 ;     319 words ......less water and fewer materials. The LEED homes will provide improved indoor air...environment on all levels. These LEED homes will help lower operating costs...provide support services to builders of LEED homes during the pilot phase. Providers...

Article: LEED branches out: the popular green building rating system is about to extend its reach to new programs for existing buildings, commercial interiors, and core and shell structures.(Sustainable Programs)
Building Design & Construction;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......CI), and core and shell (CS). All three rely on the basic LEED format, with five major credit categories, plus points for innovation and for hiring a LEED Accredited Professional. Total points vary by program, as...mean to the nonresidential design and construction market. LEED-EB: Exponential potential ...