LEED Consultant Training

Establishing and refining an accurate LEED Roadmap is central to the success of any green building project. A well organized charrette provides the foundation and structure for this process to occur. This project assignment involves working on a LEED project to determine if it is better suited for the LEED CI or NC Rating System.

The San Francisco Humane Society engaged in a LEED Silver certification project. This project assignment requires evaluating how changes in our design will affect the probability of achieving various LEED credits in the Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Materials & Resources and Indoor Environmental Quality credit sections.

Upon completion, you will have deeper knowledge of LEED credit requirements and a better understanding of how different credits work in synergy with one another.

Water efficient landscaping provides an excellent, cost-effective opportunity to achieve overall water savings in a building. For this project assignment, you will determine the percentage outdoor water reduction and estimate savings using the Outdoor Water Use reduction calculator. Contrary to common belief, the landscape architect or civil engineer is not required and anyone on the team can document this credit.

A healthy indoor environment is an important component to a green workspace and has been shown to increase employee productivity. Natural daylight, in particular, has been shown to have a positive correlation on employee well being and satisfaction in the workplace.

This project assignment will help you to calculate the percentage of day-lit space for part of our project. Using window area, floor area and visible light transmittance, you will be able to perform the daylight calculation to determine if our conference room meets the credit requirements. You will also be utilizing a Credit Interpretation Ruling to re-run the calculation using additional information.

Specifying building materials that contain recycled content on LEED projects is easy... However, questions often arise regarding calculating the recycled content dollar value that will be applied toward your LEED certification.

By completing this LEED project assignment you will understand how to calculate the recycled content dollar value of a concrete mix, one of the higher-cost materials used on the project. Upon completion, you will have an understanding of how to document materials purchasing for LEED credits.