LEED v4 :: GBIG Insight

New LEED Pilot Credit Establishes an Integrative Process for Health Promotion

By Kelly Worden on 18 May 2016 • 2 minute read

Protecting human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change has been a focus of the green building movement since its inception. With changing weather patterns and matured understanding of the relationship between climate change and health …

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New Free Tool Helps Apply LEED v4 to Optimize Climate Resilience

By Evan Bowechop on 16 Nov 2015 • 1 minute read

In a world with a changing climate, building designers, developers, investors, and entire communities are increasingly exposed to risks that cannot be navigated by referencing historic conditions alone. This is the central challenge that is explored in a 2011 research p …

LEED v4 Impact Brief: Geothermal Energy

By Gretchen Heberling on 08 Jun 2015 • 6 minute read

The 2015 release of LEED v4 ushers in strong business opportunities for industry leaders. Advancements in the LEED building rating system incentivize projects to increase efficiency gains in energy, water and waste, while furthering the human experience components that …

Keeping the Edge in Atlanta

By Nicolette Mueller on 16 Apr 2015 • 5 minute read

Editor's note: This article was originally published on USGBC.org. USGBC awarded Dagmar Epsten, LEED Fellow and CEO of Epsten Group, a LEED Platinum plaque for her LEED v4 Existing Buildings project—but it’s just part of her collection of Platinum plaques. We sat …

What’s in My Chair? Materials and Health Lessons from the Experts

By David Marcus on 06 Aug 2014 • 2 minute read

Maybe it’s a vestige from grade school, but I’ve always loved watching educational videos. I remember getting a little thrill each time the teacher broke out the VHS player (remember those?) and we got to watch an interesting video about how volcanoes form or “rid …

The Bicycle Rack: A More Meaningful LEED Credit Than Ever Before

By Kelly Worden on 31 Jul 2014 • 1 minute read

In previous versions of LEED, the bicycle rack credit was seen as a notoriously easy LEED credit to achieve. Building owners could install a bicycle rack, provide changing rooms and gain credit for it, regardless of whether or not building users were enabled to actually …

Green Chemistry Innovators Help Advance Dialogue around Safer Building Materials

By Ashley White, PhD on 06 Jun 2014 • 3 minute read

Through the LEED, Materials, and Health Initiative, USGBC has been advancing dialogue around the challenges and opportunities associated with material ingredient disclosure and elimination of chemical hazards in the building sector. Last week USGBC held a workshop on …

Workshop participants, "Advancing Safer Materials in the Building Products Sector."

Leveraging LEED v4 to Spur Market Transformation of Building Materials

By Adam Maynard on 02 May 2014 • 3 minute read

Last month, Tom Lent, Policy Director of the Healthy Building Network sat down alongside Brendan Owens, VP of LEED Technical Development at USGBC, for a lunch talk entitled Building Material Transparency: We Should Care What’s in Our Buildings. It was the second suc …