LEED Resource Center
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
LEED is a 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 and indoor environmental quality.
Lighting plays a significant role in each of the following LEED prerequisites and credits: (Click here for more details)
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Light Pollution Reduction
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Minimum Energy Performance
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Optimize Energy Performance
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Mercury Content
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Light Control
USGBC offers a variety of newsletters written to assist in understanding the LEED process. To subscribe to any of them, click here. If you do not already have a free USGBC site user account, you will need to create one.
The follow ABL employees are LEED Accredited Professionals: