The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched the pilot phase of its newest green building rating system: LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The official invitation to participate in the ...

U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) V3, the certification bodies for the LEED Green Building Rating System were recently announced. Well-known ...

U.S. Green Building Council's LEED 3.0 rating system, which launched earlier this summer, focuses more on energy usage than previous versions did -- and a new requirement is the first to focus on ...

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has released a new retail specific rating system for LEED building certification. The LEED for ...

As “green” buildings have gone from being isolated oddities of hardcore environmental activists and entered the mainstream, the need for green standards has grown. To meet that need, the U.S. Green ...

The recently completed Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach, designed by SmithGroupJJR, is targeting both LEED Platinum and Living Building status. The new ruling could simplify documentation ...

Ball State freshman Andrew Hopkins works on homework in the lobby of the David Letterman Communication and Media Building at Ball State University. The building was the first of 16 LEED certified ...

Jamestown, a leading real estate investment and management firm, announced that 4201 Wilson Boulevard, a 595,000-square-foot office building at Ballston Exchange in Arlington, VA, has earned LEED ...

Judging by its energy usage, the School Without Walls in the District of Columbia may actually have no walls: It scores a 16 out of 100 on the EnergyStar scale, which ranks buildings by energy ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released a new retail-specific rating system for LEED building certification. The LEED for Retail rating system was developed with the support ...