Items Tagged with 'LEED'

The U.S. Green Building Council launched the Sustainable Stadiums Interactive Map, a new tool that helps fans, media, venue operators and city leaders explore LEED- and TRUE-certified stadiums across North America—alongside LEED-certified hotels, restaurants and other buildings located near participating venues.

By hitching their wagon to the horse of Standard 90.1, LEED-related hard costs are rising and becoming increasingly misaligned with low-margin project cost models based largely on minimum energy standards within the project’s regulatory context.

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) released a new joint framework aimed at strengthening collaboration between architects and contractors to improve project outcomes across the construction industry.

Watts has launched a LEED v5 Product Selection Tool, a new tool designed to help architects, engineers, designers, specifiers and sustainability professionals navigate updated credit categories and performance requirements. 

The 66,000-square-foot, four-story urban infill building integrates wellness into daily student life while expanding athletic, physical education, and gathering spaces for the school community.

Energy efficiency benchmarking alone is no longer sufficient and we recommend evolving the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) primary climate action program to track total carbon intensity by incorporating fuel source reporting, electrification metrics, expanded embodied carbon tracking, and updated baselines.

USGBC California (USGBC-CA) is hosting its 25th annual California Green Building Conference for a second year in the Bay Area, this time in the East Bay on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

The U.S. Green Building Council announced the 2026 cohort for its LEED for Cities certification program. The cohort includes 17 cities from across the U.S. that are committed to certification under the LEED v4.1 Existing Cities rating system.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced 20 recipients of the 2026 AIA Emerging Professional Grant, awarding them complimentary registration to attend the AIA Conference on Architecture and Design, taking place June 10–13, 2026, in San Diego. 

Green Ideas® Building Science Consultants has announced that The Pomeroy, a 293,346-square-foot multifamily development in Mesa, Ariz., has achieved LEED® Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council on March 5, 2026.