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Article: "Leedership" in Action.(United States Green Building Council, launch of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System)(Brief Article)
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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A little more than one year ago, the 350+ members of the US Green Building Council celebrated the long-awaited launch of version 2.0 of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System [TM] (LEED [TM]) for new commercial buildings. It was the culmination of five years of hard labor on the part of many talented individuals from across the building industry -- all dedicated to helping green the market by establishing a national definition of green, providing teams with a design guide, and providing a third-party certification tool to assure owners and occupants that their buildings met certain standards of performance. Twelve buildings from the ...