LEED restructuring

from Green Source enews (11/20):

Building a New LEED
LEED 2009 looks to the future by standardizing the sometimes disparate LEED categories and providing a point model with more basis in hard scientific data
11/2008
By Nadav Malin

"The U.S. green building council’s (USGBC) LEED rating system was a victim of its own success almost from the moment it launched. Overextended staff and hypergrowth led to spotty customer service and complaints from many users and stakeholders about a lack of responsiveness. But as LEED has matured, USGBC has gotten better at managing its success and focusing its efforts. Now it is ready with LEED 2009 (which until recently had the working title of “LEED version 3.0”), the most substantial restructuring of the LEED rating systems in the program’s history." ...

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