LEED Green Building

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Permalink Reply by Rafael Marxuach on May 8, 2007 at 1:53pm

Manolo thanks for the post I will be looking into it. I Think is an important piece of legislation that we should be aware of.

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Permalink Reply by Smitty Lynch on August 31, 2007 at 12:04am

I agree LEED is here to stay... I am currently attempting to study to become certified and I think that universities should encourage their students to become LEED certified while still in school, perhaps even offer LEED exam study courses as an required/elective course..

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Permalink Reply by leila on February 29, 2008 at 11:15pm

How possible is it, do you think, for a student to pass the LEED AP exam? I mean, most students have no experience with built projects...right?

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Permalink Reply by Manuel Ray on September 24, 2008 at 1:01pm

Sorry to be so late, it is not difficult for anyone that really cares to pass the LEED AP exam. It is not about built projects, it is about reasonable ways to accomplish projects in a way to protect our world. If you study the USGBC-LEED new construction Reference Guide, with logic, you will be able to pass.

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Permalink Reply by elbarnes on September 24, 2008 at 1:26pm

Indeed, yet the USGBC now says that a significant portion of the exam will rely on experience; however, I am not convinced that experience is universally uniform enough to be tested in a multiple choice setting. I've seen several architectural students pass the exam before graduating with their Bachelor's degree.

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Permalink Reply by David F. Schmidt on December 29, 2009 at 8:42pm

Hi Leila,

There are many excellent on-line sources of information that will help you prepare to pass the LEED GA and AP exams. Please see the following two examples:

http://www.areforum.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=f34b7b4c0c3f6af56...

http://groups.google.com/group/leed-ap-studygroup-nv?hl=en

David F. Schmidt

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Permalink Reply by Manuel Ray on September 24, 2008 at 1:10pm

Put more emphasis on Green Building, not LEED. LEED is just some type of measurement or a process to assess certain degree of environmentally friendly goals to a project.
I am all for universities, schools, etc., to offer and teach "Green Building".
As with the others, Iám sorry of being so late on answering.

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Permalink Reply by elbarnes on September 24, 2008 at 1:28pm

More than "green building," whole building integrated design. LEED may burn itself out -- it's a rating system started by a small NGO that never expected to take off like it did. I have over 60 registered projects through our green schools effort (www.osfc.state.oh.us) and the interface between us and the USGBC has been less than smooth.

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Permalink Reply by RealLifeLEED on March 27, 2008 at 1:08pm

I'm a huge supporter of LEED, though not a big supporter of LEED mandates. The system is really setup to be a post-construction certification, and there are a lot of things that can't be nailed down (materials credits in particular) by the time CD's are completed.

On a related note, I've just started a LEED blog that hopefully fills the void of post-test information. It's geared towards managing and completing LEED documentation... check it out!

http://reallifeleed.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Manuel Ray on September 24, 2008 at 1:06pm

In ways, I agree with you. LEED mandates and all required to obtain points or any class certification, such as silver, gold, etc., is somewhat taken out-of-proportion. What really is important and should be important to all of us is to keep designing and constructing projects with the most environmentally friendly materials, processes and results as possible.
I am soory I've been so late in replying.

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Permalink Reply by elbarnes on September 24, 2008 at 1:30pm

Indeed. We (State of Ohio) are paying for the registration and certification process and our mandate is that buildings be "designed to acheive LEED Silver with an emphasis on energy optimization." The registration and quantitative backup therein, gives us some assurance and way of tracking what the design teams are actually attempting to do. As we spend $4.1B on building new schools over the next few years, we need a system that can help raise the bar and track the projects. LEED is a perfect mechanism for that.

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Permalink Reply by Michael McKenzie on October 23, 2008 at 9:02am

To: realifeleed
Just read your blog (title below) in GreenSource and was about to paste it to this discussion but then realized to my surprise that you are already here. Please do your thing with an update to this...better still, why not start a new discussion in forum...this one has become somewhat threadbare.
Cheers!
Full Access to 13 LEED NC and CI Documentation Submittals... MOTHER LODE!!!

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