This is a generic presentation I created for our Green Alberta Clients to get a better understanding from a manufacturers perspective how they and their products fit into the LEED rating systems. A lot of extra content is of course from my speech which is not shown in the pdf.

1. LEED® for Manufacturers
Green Alberta ‘Brown Bag’ Learning Luncheon - July 2, 2008
Presented by:
Stephani Carter, LEED® A.P./ I.D.T.
Sustainable Building Materials Specialist

2. Leadership in
Energy and
Environmental
Design

3. A Brief Background on LEED®.
•The USGBC began to develop the LEED
Rating System in 1995.
•It was piloted in 1998 and launched in 2000
•LEED for Canada piloted in 2003 and
launched in 2004

4. LEED® ‘Products’ from the USGBC
- Image source: USGBC website

5. - Image source: USGBC website

6. LEED® ‘Products’ from the USGBC
- Image source: USGBC website

7. LEED® ‘Products’ from the CaGBC
Complete Rating Systems ready to use
•New Construction
•Commercial Interiors
Application Guides
•“MURB” - Multi-unit Residential Buildings
•Campus and Multiple Buildings
Rating Systems ready in 2009
•Core and Shell
•Existing Buildings
Participating in US Pilot Program
•Neighbourhood Development

8. LEED® ‘Products’ from the USGBC
- Image source: USGBC website

9. The CaGBC offers two exams:
LEED® New Construction
LEED® Commercial Interiors

10. All LEED Rating Systems or Products contain:
•Prerequisites - Team must meet
•Credits and points - Team chooses
•Room for Innovation - Team creates
•1 LEED accredited professional point.
The number of prerequisites, credits and points vary
from one product to another.

11. How Points are Calculated:
Each point and prerequisite requires compliance
with different standards.
The standards referenced are already in use in the
building industry for ease of integration of LEED
into a typical project.
Each point has a different calculation associated
with it.

12. LEED®-CI
vs.
LEED ®-NC

13. LEED®-CI vs. LEED®-NC

14. LEED®-CI vs. LEED®-NC

15. LEED®-CI vs. LEED®-NC

16. LEED®-CI vs. LEED®-NC

17. LEED®-CI vs. LEED®-NC

18. There are four levels of certification for every LEED product.
The number of points required to achieve a level of certification
varies from product to product. But the percentages are the
same for both LEED-NC and LEED-CI.
Certified Level 37% to 46%
Silver Level 47% to 54%
Gold Level 55% to 73%
Platinum Level 74% to 100%

19. Categories are weighted differently for different
LEED products too.
Interior products and materials have a heavier
weighting in LEED-CI than LEED-NC.

20. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

21. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

22. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

23. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

24. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

25. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

26. - Canada Green Building Council LEED®- CI 2007

27. Tips and Tricks to
LEED
Project Facilitation

28. Insider Tips to LEED Project Facilitation:
• First Steps after an owner decides to start a project - hire an expert to help
“green” your project.
• Next a client should prepare an Owners Project Requirements Document.
• Integrated design workshop should be held with all the key players.
• Construction Managed projects are easier when working with LEED, than
the traditional tender process.
• Mechanical engineers typically have the most amount of work on LEED
projects. They should become your best friend. They can make or break
your certification.
• The LEED rating manual often has a list of “credit by phase” that can be
used to follow as a loose guide.
• It is too hard and almost impossible to implement LEED after 50%
construction documents.

29. Insider Tips to LEED Project Facilitation:
• There are strategic times during design and construction that the team
should hold integrated meetings to make sure they are on track with LEED.
There should be approximately 4 to 5 depending on the length of the
project.
• Pre-Design
• Before Tendering
• Construction (usually during interior finishes)
• Substantial Completion
• The checklist can not be updated until the team submits credits to be
reviewed by the LEED coordinator.
• Submit all LEED documents to the “audit level” submittals.

30. General LEED information:
No “S” on LEED
•Buildings are Certified, Professionals are Accredited
•LEED does not endorse any products, it does not
certify products or materials only buildings.
•No ONE product or material can achieve a credit.
•CaGBC reviews the entire building as a whole not
each building product individually. All the products in
a building add to effort to achieve the overall rating of
a building.

31. THANK YOU!