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Green Steel Building Design - What Is LEED Certification?

by William Hauselberg on Apr 20, 2011

Getting LEED green certification has numerous benefits for a company. LEED or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design is a green building certification system recognized internationally. It gives third party verification that a building has employed strategies designed to improve water efficiency, indoor environmental quality, CO2 emission reduction, energy savings, stewardship of resources and thoughtfulness about the impact the building will have on the environment in the building's design and use. Green steel building construction can be achieved in a number of ways. If the building meets certain design, use and operation standards it can be LEED certified.

How To Get LEED Certification

To be LEED certified steel buildings must use ENERGRY STAR compliant high-reflectivity and high-emissivity roofing with a minimum solar reflectivity of 78 over a minimum of 3/4 of the roof. It must comply with ANSI/ASHRAE/IANES Standard 90.1 2007 or the local energy...Read More >>



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