Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®)

LEED is a term that many of our customers are becoming and more and more familiar with. The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. Members of the U.S. Green Building Council representing all segments of the building industry developed LEED and continue to contribute to its evolution.

LEED® was created to define “green building” by establishing a common standard of measurement, promote integrated, whole-building design practices, recognize environmental leadership in the building industry, stimulate green competition, raise consumer awareness of green building benefits, and transform the building market.

LEED provides a complete framework for assessing building performance and meeting sustainability goals. LEED emphasizes state of the art strategies for sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. LEED recognizes achievements and promotes expertise in green building through a comprehensive multi-faceted system offering project certification, professional accreditation, training and practical resources.

Doorway Solutions fully supports the LEED standards and continually works with manufacturers to ensure we offer a full line of products that meet LEED specifications. We realize that "green" design not only makes a positive impact on public health and the environment, it also reduces operating costs, enhances building and organizational marketability, potentially increases occupant productivity, and helps create a sustainable community. Working with our customers, we ensure the products we supply meet their LEED requirements and goals.

Below you will find further information about LEED from some of the manufacturers we represent as well as links to related websites to obtain more information. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the experts at Doorway Solutions for more information.

Presentations & Documents

Links to Related Information

U.S. Green Build Council

Table of Contents

Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
Building Codes and Standards
Building Materials, Guides and Certification
Case Studies
Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Design and Simulation Tools
Design Resources
Economics
Energy
Funding
Government Initiatives & Guidelines
Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
Media
Rating Systems
Research Centers
Sustainability/Miscellaneous

Categories

Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
American Indoor Air Quality Council
American Institute of Architecture Committee on the Environment (COTE)
American Solar Energy Society
Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
Better Bricks (productivity)
Boston Area Solar Energy Association
Boston Building Materials Co-op (BBMC)
Boston Building Materials Resource Center (BMRC)
Building Concerns
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
Canada Green Building Council
Climate Action Network (CAN)
Community Greenhouse Foundation
Congress for the New Urbanism
Construction Materials Recycling Association
Development Center for Appropriate Technology
Ecological Design Institute (EDI)
Environmental Defense
Florida Green Building Coalition
Global Environmental Options (GEO)
Global Green USA
Green Building Alliance (Pittsburgh)
Green Building Council Australia
Green Building Council Korea
Green Building Information Council (GBIC), Canada
Green Round Table: Sustainable Architecture and Design
Green Pages (Canada)
Healthy House Institute (HHI)
Hong Kong Professional Green Building Council
Institute of Brownfield Professionals
Japan Green Building Council
Metropolitan Partnership for Energy
Mexico Green Building Council
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
National Environmental Trust
National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (NPPC)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Step (US)
New Urban Guild
North East Sustainble Energy Association- NESEA
NW Energy Efficiency Alliance
Second Nature
Society of Building Science Educators
Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC)
Sustainable Energy Coalition
Urban Ecology
Used Building Materials Association (UBMA)
Wisconsin Green Building Alliance (WGBA)
World Green Building Council

Codes and Standards
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Building Codes Assistance Project
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - codes compilation
Development Center for Appropriate Technology - codes
GreenSpec
International Code Council
International Organization for Standardization
U.S. DOE BTS - Codes and Standards program

Materials, Guides and Certification
Advanced Buildings
Building Materials Resource Center
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES 2.0)
Certified Forest Products Council
Center for Resourceful Building Technology
CIWMB Recycled Content Product Database
Concrete Network
Construction Materials Recycling Association
EnCompass - Map of Recycled Content Buildings
Environmental Design + Construction magazine
Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of Architects
Find Green
Forest World - Sustainable Forest Products Resource
GreenGuard (interior products emissions testing)
Green Building Databases & Design Resources
Green Building Pages, Inc.
Greenroofs.com
Green Sage
Green Seal
GreenSpec, from Environmental Building News
NY Wa$teMatch Materials Exchange: Building Materials Reuse Calculator
oikos - Green Building Source
Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
Sustainable Design Resource Guid
Sustainable Products Corporation
Used Building Materials Association (UBMA)
U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

Product Certification and Testing
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Certified Forest Products Council
Forest Stewardship Council (in U.S., with international links)
GreenGuard
Green Seal
Scientific Certification Systems

Case Studies
4 Times Square (Conde Nast Building)
901 Cherry in San Bruno, California
Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
AIA COTE 2001 Top Ten Green Projects
Audubon House: Building for an environmental future
Bachelor Enlistied Quarters, Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Barney-Davis Green Renovation - Denison University
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED)
Better Bricks (productivity)
Big Horn Home Improvement Center - Silverthorne, CO
BRE Environmental Building at Garston
BTS House of Straw
Civano - Tucson, AZ
CIWMB case studies
C. K. Choi Building, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
Cobb Hill Cohousing - Vermont
Daylighting and Productivity Study by Heschong Mahone Group
Desert House, Phoenix, Arizona
Earth General
Earthship
Ecology House - evaluation report
Ecovillage
Energy & Environmental Building Association - success stories
enCompass - map of recycled-content buildings
GreenHOME
Green Building Alliance - Pittsburgh case studies
The Greening of the White House
Innovative Design Inc. - daylighting in schools
International Case Study compilation - Hong Kong University Architecture
King County, WA - Sustainable Building program case studies
MIT Building Technology - Sustainable Urban Housing in China
NESEA - Northeast Green Building Awards
NEXT 21 (Osaka Gas Experimental Housing)
Northland College - McLean Environmental Living and Learning Center
NREL High Performance Buildings Research Projects
OIKOS case study compilation
Pennsylvania Cable and Telecommunications Association
Pennsylvania Cambria Office - Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania DEP case study research
Pennsylvania’s First Green Building: DEP’s Southcentral Regional Office Building
Property2us article: High Rise Apartment Building in Battery Park City
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) office
Rocky Mountain Institute - Green Development Case Studies
San Diego Environmental Services' Ridgehaven building
Smart Growth Network - eco-industrial parks and other case studies
Takenaka Corporation - Environmentally Responsible Projects
Takenaka Corporation - University buildings
Ten Shades of Green
Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco
UNEP International Environmental Center
U.S. DOE - CESD's Green Building Success Stories (compilation)
U.S. EPA - Leading by Example (EPA buildings)
Village Homes - a green-built community in Davis, CA
Vital Signs Case Studies
William McDonough + Partners
Zion Canyon Visitor and Transportation Center, NREL

Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Portland Energy Conservation Inc. - Commissioning Resources
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Higher Education Teaching Spaces - A Methodological Approach
The Power of POE (Facilities Design & Management article)

Design and Simulation Tools
Building Design Advisor
Building Energy Simulation Tools
Energy Design Tools
Environmental Support Solutions
EQUER (France)
Green Building Advisor
Green Buildings [Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development]
Interactive Tools Survey [University of Weimar, Germany]
International Association for Impact Assessments (IAIA)
Introduction to OTTV and Simulation Tools
U.S. DOE Building Energy Software: Tools Directory
Whole Building Design Guide

Design Resources
Alternative Architecture and Sustainable Development
Architectural Resource Collaborative (ARC)
Architecture and Building
Architecture and Community
Earthship Architecture
EBN
Environmental Design and Sustainability
Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of Architects
Environmental Sustainable Architecture
Field Guide to Sustainable Construction
Green Building Pages, Inc.
Green Building Primer
greendesign.net - Green Building Resource Center
Green Design Sustainable Architecture
The Hannover Principles
LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)
Natural Ventilation - A strategy for sustainability [MIT]
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture Building and Culture
Sustainable Architecture Resource
Sustainable Building Resource
Sustainable Building Sourcebook
Sustainable Design Resource Guide - Denver AIA COTE

Economics
Green Economics Website
Natural Capitalism

Energy
Alliance to Save Energy
Better Bricks (productivity)
Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology (CREST)
The Energy Foundation
Renewable Energy Policy Project
State Energy Offices (U.S.)
Sustainable Energy Coalition
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA -- Energy Star program
U.S. Department of Energy Library
U.S. Department of Energy - EnergyFiles
U.S. National Energy Policy
U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
World Bank energy projects

Funding
Bridgemer: Funding and Investing in Green Buildings
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - funding sources
Funding Green Buildings
Kresge Foundation
State Energy Offices (U.S.)
Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP)

Government Initiatives & Guidelines
National/International Government
Federal Energy Management Program - Greening Initiatives/Tools
Federal Greening Toolkit
Field Guide to Sustainable Construction
Greening Federal Facilities
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
OECD Project on Sustainable Buildings
U.S. Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide
U.S. Air Force – Green Base of the Future
U.S. DOE Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA -- Energy Star program
U.S. DOE High Performance Commercial Buildings: A Technology Roadmap
U.S. DOE Low Life-Cycle-Cost Air Conditioner Program
U.S. DOE Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
U.S. DOE Rebuild America - Schools and Commercial Buildings
U.S. EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
U.S. GSA Sustainable Design and LEED
U.S. GSA - Great Lakes Region - Build Green
U.S. National Park Service - Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command - design policy
Whole Building Design Guide

Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
Activity-Based Management
ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute
BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST]
BuildingGreen.com
Buildings and Life-Cycle Costing [Canadian Building Digest]
Carnegie Mellon – Green Design Initiative (GDI)
Comparing the Environmental Effects of Building Systems [Canadian Wood Council]
Eco-Quantum (Netherlands)
ENVEST (environmental impact estimating design software) [UK BRE]
LCAid (Australia)
Life Cycle Analysis for Residential Buildings [Canadian Wood Council]
Life Cycle Costing and Stainless Steel - ASSDA
LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)

Media
Colorado Green Business
Environmental Building News
Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
Environmental News Network
HGTV
http://www.greenatworkmag.com/

Rating Systems
Alameda County, CA, Multifamily Green Building Guidelines
Austin, Texas, Green Building Program
Bepac – British Columbia
Breeam – UK
Breeam Office 1998 – Canada
British Columbia University – Facilities Branch Environmental Guidelines
Built Green Colorado
EarthCraft HouseTM
Scottsdale, Arizona, Green Building Program
U.S. Green Building Council – LEEDTM

Research Centers
Carnegie Mellon University Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD), USDOE
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS)
Center for Resourceful Building Technology (CRBT)
Center for Sustainable Systems - Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Centre for Sustainable Design
FICUS-Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability
Green Resource Center, Berkeley
Hong Kong University - Building Energy Efficiency Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Building Technologies Dept.
Michigan Technological University’s Sustainable Futures Institute
MIT Building Technology Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Buildings Technology Center
Pacific Energy Center
Renewable Resource Data Center
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Sandia National Laboratories Renewable Energy Office
Simulation Research Group
Sustainability Research Profiles [Second Nature]
The Vital Signs Project

Sustainability/Miscellaneous Agenda 21
Agenda 21 and other UNCED agreements
Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development
Agenda 21 - National Information

Ecosystem
Complexity and Connectivity in Ecosystems
Ecosystem Valuation
Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
What is an Ecological Footprint?

Sustainability
Applying Sustainable Development
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
Consulting the Public Interest
Ecosustainable - Sustainable Environment
Environment & Sustainable Living
The Florida Center for Understanding Sustainability
Indicators of Sustainability Training Course
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Design
Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
National Centre for Sustainability (NCFS)
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
President's Council on Sustainable Development (U.S.) - publications
Sources of Sustainability
Sustainable Development Gateway
Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, Australia
Sustainable Measures
Sustainable USA
The Natural Step
The Sustainability Report
Towards Sustainability
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Sustainable Development Programme
U.S. House of Representatives' Livable Community Task Force
U.S. House of Representatives' Sustainable Development Caucus
World Bank
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

Urban Sustainability
Congress for the New Urbanism
European Union's Database on Good Practice in Urban Management and Sustainability
Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability (FICUS)
Global Development Research Center - Virtual Library on Urban Environmental Management
Green Communities Assistance Kit
Livable Communities
New Urbanism
Smart Growth Network
SURBAN (database on sustainable urban development in Europe)
Sustainable Communities Resource Package (SCRP)
Sustainable Urban Design and Climate
Urban Ecology Australia

Industry Information

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