So what does it mean to go “green?” The US Green Building Council (USGBC) utilizes the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) system to highlight the following five factors as considerations for constructing a green building. While not all green buildings integrate every one of these, they are important to consider and to [...]

LEED in general has advocated that the higher the density, the “greener” the building. This is especially true in the LEED for Homes project that the USGBC unveiled in the beginning of 2008. “About 500 builders representing 10,000 homes across the U.S. participated in the LEED for Homes pilot program.” Since then [...]

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