Leed

Identify the official levels of LEED building certification; then locate a building in your locale or region that is LEED certified; finally describe the major efficiencies that are being achieved in the building that merited LEED certification.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria (Online, 2009). LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts (Online, 2009). LEED certification is available in four progressive levels:

• Certified: 26 - 32 points

• Silver: 33 - 38 points

• Gold: 39 - 51 points

• Platinum: 52 - 69 points

LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant retrofit. And LEED for Neighborhood Development extends the benefits of LEED beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it serves.

FedEx Express World Headquarters Memphis TN

FedEx

Project Size: 1.2msf

Seeking LEED EB O&M Silver Certification

LEED EB EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS

At SDK we are particularly proud of our LEED EB project expertise and experience. We were directly responsible for the detailed client and site work supporting the certification of two of the first three projects ever to be certified under LEED EB.

Steve Keppler, president of SDK was a core member on the LEED...