By: Shane Sabine
Have you thought about becoming an architect? Would you like to incorporate your eco-friendly perspective into your career? Take a look into having your buildings become LEED-certified, then.
LEED is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings and recognizes performance in areas such as energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and water savings. LEED projects are taking place in forty-one different countries. To have your structure earn a plaque signifying its status, you must send your application to the U.S. Green Building Council. The USGBC is non-profit, and its mission is to “transform the way buildings and communities are designed, build and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life,” according to the organization’s website. You may register online at USGBC to get the ball rolling.
The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, NY was built with becoming the world’s most environmentally advanced building in mind and is LEED-certified. Also, check http://greensource.construction.com/ and http://archrecord.construction.com/green/GreenFeatures/default.asp for some other green sites pleasing to the eye.
I wish you the best of luck in exploring LEED certification in greater detail.
LEED is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings and recognizes performance in areas such as energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and water savings. LEED projects are taking place in forty-one different countries. To have your structure earn a plaque signifying its status, you must send your application to the U.S. Green Building Council. The USGBC is non-profit, and its mission is to “transform the way buildings and communities are designed, build and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life,” according to the organization’s website. You may register online at USGBC to get the ball rolling.
The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, NY was built with becoming the world’s most environmentally advanced building in mind and is LEED-certified. Also, check http://greensource.construction.com/ and http://archrecord.construction.com/green/GreenFeatures/default.asp for some other green sites pleasing to the eye.
I wish you the best of luck in exploring LEED certification in greater detail.
Picture from: http://www.durst.org/i_prop.asp?propertyid=12.
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