USGBC Accepting Applications for New Rating System
Application information is available online.
Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 2/14/2007 12:00:00 AM
The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) newest rating system, LEED for Neighborhood Development, is now in its pilot stage. Firms wishing to participate in the program, the first national standard for neighborhood design, are invited to submit pilot projects by April 6.
LEED for Neighborhood Development addresses and fuses the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building, says the USGBC. Projects will be surveyed according to Neighborhood Pattern & Design, Green Construction & Technology, Innovation & Design Process, and Smart Location & Linkage. The latter discourages urban sprawl. Through 2008, the pilot project phase will apply feedback to help refine the system. Then, the revisions will take place before the system is balloted by USGBC members.
“Just as other LEED systems have improved building efficiency and energy performance, LEED for neighborhoods will reward efficient use of land and the building of complete and walkable communities," says John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. "It is helping to reinforce a more complete understanding of sustainability that extends all the way from the individual building to the neighborhood and community."
The LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system is a collaboration between USGBC, the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Applications and more information is available at USGBC.
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