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What is LEED exactly?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, is an international green building certification system recognised as a benchmark for industry excellence in sustainability. This certification proves external verification (outside of the requirements issued by the jurisdiction of the council area that the building resides in) which aims to ensure that a building or community was designed and built with strategies whose sole purpose was to improve performance across categories such as:
- Energy usage
- Water efficiency
- CO2 emission reduction
- Improved indoor environment quality
- Management of resources
- Sensitivity to environmental impacts
A certification from LEED should indicate a healthier and relatively stress-free environment designed to promote and respond to the well-being of its occupants. Not only will a LEED certified building address the well being of its occupants, it will also reduce stress output on to the environment through resourceful and efficient energy consumption.
How is LEED assessed?
LEED assessment is controlled by the USGBC, through which assessors can be accredited to undertake LEED ratings. LEED is assessed by rating how the building complies with certain sustainability goals that the USGBC has outlined as stated above.
