U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) V3, the certification bodies for the LEED Green Building Rating System were recently announced. Well-known ...

When compared to states, the District once again led the nation for LEED-certified green building construction per capita in 2024, with 33.4 square feet of such construction per capita — six times ...

LEED growth in 2025 highlights where high-performance, compliance-ready green buildings are scaling fastest outside the U.S.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today announced the Top 10 Countries and Regions for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in 2025. Hong Kong has secured a spot in the global ...

Philadelphia — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announces that LEED v4, the newest version of the LEED green building program, launched today at the annual Greenbuild International Conference ...

This marks the first time USGBC has opened LEED Online to third-party software developers. Third-party applications will be integrated to increase users’ business agility. Specifically, LEED ...

When Minneapolis architect Doug Pierce first envisioned a few years ago a new building standard that could help measure the resiliency of a structure or community, he had imagined design that could ...

Many factors endanger the environment. Unsustainable infrastructure systems, plastic waste, and increased carbon emissions all contribute to this. But, recently, people have acknowledged the need to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Amidst efforts to increase eco-friendliness on campus, the University administration announced a ...

Drexel University was awarded LEED® Gold certification for the University’s Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, which includes the first biowall at an academic institution in the ...

Surpassing University-wide standards for “green” design, the new Physical Sciences Building earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification at the Gold level. All of Cornell’s ...

Large windows at the LEED-certified Fitzpatrick Center at Duke University have been blamed for killing 85 birds in nine weeks. This is more than any other building on campus. More birds die from ...