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Home » U.S. Green Building Council Announces New Alignment for California Projects

U.S. Green Building Council Announces New Alignment for California Projects

April 20, 2018
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), creators of LEED, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system, announced streamlining for all LEED prerequisites and some credits for California projects built to California’s robust energy and green building codes (CALGreen) that are pursuing certification under LEED v4.

“LEED has always helped to raise the bar on code so that we can continue to push the market to reduce carbon emissions,” said Wes Sullens, USGBC director for codes technical development. “In the case of CALGreen, LEED is able to celebrate the leadership of California by recognizing its efforts and allowing projects to pursue both CALGreen and LEED. This streamlining effort recognizes those leaders in the green building space who constantly push the market to new heights. It also signals to the rest of the U.S. what’s possible when you add the weight of LEED to a robust building code, and that for those already operating at this level, certification is actually very attainable.”

With California leading the way, many cities, counties and states are adopting green building strategies as mandatory requirements in local codes. USGBC has been working on the greening of building codes for more than a decade. Since 2014, USGBC has worked to align requirements between LEED and CALGreen and while all projects must earn a minimum of 40 points to earn LEED certification, California’s green codes put project teams on a more direct certification path.

Last July, USGBC expanded streamlining the LEED v4 Building Design and Construction credits and prerequisites on projects built to California’s codes. To date, more than three million square feet of space has taken advantage of that effort. Now, projects built to the 2016 California code can seek certification through additional streamlining of the LEED v4 Interior Design and Construction and Homes rating systems. Additionally commercial projects pursuing points toward certification using the Optimize Energy Performance credit now benefit from an update that reduces the need to run additional energy models if the project is building to, or exceeding, California’s code.

Visit www.USGBC.org.

 

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