The new credit categories for this LEED upgrade are aimed at assisting teams in learning which credits will help them best optimize the issues they find most important, and to make sure that the LEED for Homes rating system and the commercial rating system are more in tune with each other. With that in mind, the three new categories are:
- Integrative Process: highlights the importance of iterative, inclusionary process in the design, operation, construction and maintenance of green projects
- Location and Transportation: reorganizes the project location, planning and transportation issues into a separate category, where before they were put together with the Sustainable Sites category
- Performance: highlights the importance of ongoing operational performance, and includes metering, commissioning, and utility consumption data reporting
With these changes, LEED looks to improve upon its existing ability to create and encourage green building throughout the U.S and the world by making their system even more efficient.
SOURCE: SustainableBusiness.com, USGBC
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Just another way for this lame organization to “invent new revenue streams while making it more expensive and more difficult for architects to keep their heads above water financially.