Articles Tagged with ''USGBC (US Green Building Council)''

Green Business Certification Inc. has announced the 2025 class of LEED Fellows.

Representatives from across the industry gathered regularly starting in March 2023 to form a strategic partnership to pursue greater alignment regarding the collection and reporting of embodied carbon data by certification programs and initiatives across the industry. The result: ECHO.

The USGBC announced the first projects to achieve certification under the LEED v5 program.

USGBC California (USGBC-CA) announced the 2025 cohort of the Net Zero Accelerator® (NZA), the world’s first accelerator exclusively focused on net zero innovation for the built environment. 

The USGBC has unveiled LEED v5, the latest in sustainable building certification, emphasizing decarbonization and energy efficiency across a building’s full lifecycle.

Arup has partnered with the United States Green Building Council California (USGBC-CA) to co-author the “California Wildfire Rebuilding Guide.”

With a rebranded focus on carbon reduction, resiliency, and equity, the new version seeks to reclaim LEED’s leadership position in sustainability amidst the rising popularity of other programs like Fitwel and Passive House.

This article addresses ten common questions specific to LEED recertification, which may not be so clearly or pointedly addressed in the officially published material.

On December 11th at the 20th Annual Green Gala, the USGBC California community will honor movers and shakers from across the state’s green building industry during the 14th Annual California Green Building Awards and Community Awards. 

LEED v5 maintains the same familiar structure of prerequisites and credits, cataloged into broad-based categories. The four certification levels remain. However, one major structural change in LEED v5 is that every prerequisite and credit has been harmonized around three impact categories: decarbonization, quality of life, and ecological conservation and restoration.