Green Building: What it Means
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their buildings' performance.
LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health:
- sustainable site development
- water savings
- energy efficiency
- materials selection
- indoor environmental quality.
Points are awarded for meeting specified criteria, and the certification level (Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum) is based on the total number of points achieved.
The LEED Rating System was created to transform the built environment to sustainability by providing the building industry with consistent, credible standards for what constitutes a green building. The rating system is developed and continuously refined via an open, consensus-based process that has made LEED the green building standard of choice for federal agencies and state and local governments nationwide.
For more information about how the Perelman
Center for Advanced Medicine is a Green Building,
read about the LEED
certification and features.
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