On average%2C LEED-certified buildings use more energy than non-LEED buildings. LEED%27s point system for awarding certification doesn%27t exactly prioritize energy efficiency. The energy performance ...

When Scott Hardin found a home four years ago for his real estate appraisal firm, The Appraiser Guy, at Woburn’s Trade Center 128, he was pleased to settle into the “green” building. Besides the ...

LEED certified buildings are proven to save money, improve efficiency, lower carbon emissions and create healthier environments for people. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ...

It’s been LEEDing the way in New York City, officially, for 10 years. Yes, a decade ago the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) certified two Manhattan buildings under the Leadership in ...

When Minneapolis architect Doug Pierce first envisioned a few years ago a new building standard that could help measure the resiliency of a structure or community, he had imagined design that could ...

One of the persistent criticisms leveled against LEED, the U.S. Green Business Council’s popular green-building certification system, is that it doesn’t track a structure’s energy consumption over ...

Washington — Two recently released studies, one by the New Buildings Institute and one by CoStar Group, have validated that third party certified buildings outperform their conventional counterparts ...

This week, the Green Building Advisory Committee established by the General Services Administration (GSA), officially recommended to GSA that the LEED green building certification system be used for ...

Many of the new buildings on UW’s campus are not only functional and beautiful – they’re also green. The University of Wyoming has committed to building to LEED-Silver standards or better. The US ...

Certified buildings include the Highland Bridge Medical Office, a 60,000-square-foot multitenant medical office building (LEED v4 Building Design and Construction (BD+C) Silver) and The Collection, a ...

San Francisco's iconic spire just turned green; the Transamerica Pyramid isn't changing colors - but changing the way it functions. "The Transamerica Pyramid now produces its own electricity with an ...

Rick Fedrezzi, the founder and president of the U.S. Green Building Council, is a fresh-faced man with the exuberance of an evangelical preacher. And his flock is rapidly growing. On a warm Phoenix ...