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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 …

Report: What’s a Good Location for a Green Building?

By Chris Pyke, PhD on 25 Mar 2014 • 2 minute read

Green building is a flexible bundle of criteria and strategies intended to help guide and recognize the design, construction, and operation of buildings that benefit people and the environment. LEED® rating systems (excluding LEED for Neighborhood Development) includ …

Demographics and Urbanism: Where are we choosing to live?

By JP Jaudel on 22 Aug 2013 • 2 minute read

We're moving to the city! The Urban Land Institute's (ULI) recent America in 2013 report found that home location preferences were shifting among the fastest growing demographic groups in the US. Gen Y'ers, African Americans, and Latinos all increasingly favor compact u …

Predicting Transportation Outcomes for LEED Projects

By Kelly Worden on 12 Aug 2013 • 2 minute read

LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) is a relatively young LEED certification system that aims to build smarter, healthier and more connected neighborhoods that reduce negative environmental impacts and lead to fewer vehicle miles traveled (VMT). So, does it work? …

LEED ND project, East 54, in Chapel Hill, NC

Walk, Don’t Ride, to Green Schools

By Sean McMahon on 25 Jun 2013 • 2 minute read

Kids spend a huge amount of their time in school: five days a week for seven or more hours a day. They also travel to and from those schools every day, and most of the time they aren't walking. According to the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, less than 15% o …