Builders covet LEED certification — it stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — as a way to gain tax credits, attract tenants, charge premium rents and project an image of environmental responsibility. But the gap between design and construction, which LEED certifies, and how some buildings actually perform led the program last week to announce that it would begin collecting information about energy use from all the buildings it certifies. (NYTimes, August 31, 2009)

Read the entire New York Times article here.

The Shocking (Old) Truth About LEED (read the Jetson Green article as well)

Tags: energy use, Green Building, Jetson Green, LEED, New York Times, Scot Horst, United States Green Building Council, USGBC

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