LEED

LEED

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria. Green building begins with an Integrated Design Process. Unlike a conventional design process, where Architects, engineers, designers, builders, and owners fulfill their roles in isolation from one another, Integrated Design emphasizes a team approach that involves joint performance goal setting, collaboration, and creative "outside the box" solutions. This approach optimizes the potential for designs that reduce costs, maximize efficiency, comfort, and functionality and minimize the negative impacts of construction on public health and the environment. PlanetReuse.com provides the platform to locate products for reuse in projects as well as documentation to assist in the process. There are many ways to measure the green qualities in buildings. The US Green Building Council's LEED rating system is one of the best.