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USGBC Taps Certification Agencies for V.3

WASHINGTON, DC-These certification agencies will add speed and capacity to the process for building owners as LEED v.3 goes into affect.

By Erika Morphy | Updated on August 01, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC-USGBC has tapped 10 outside certification organizations to facilitate applications for LEED certifications when it releases its new standard in January 2009. Called LEED version 3, the new standard will change the current qualification system–which ranges from a minimum of 26 points for certification to 69 points for Platinum status–to a 100-point system that integrates life-cycle assessments and various sector-oriented credits into one overall system.

“As we’ve been improving LEED, we’ve been making it more complex,” said Scott Horst, chairman of the LEED Steering Committee in a teleconference with industry participants earlier this summer. “This is about a simplification of the system.”

The comment period for the proposed changes has closed and USGBC is now reviewing them, Alice Soulek, VP of LEED Development, tells GlobeSt.com. This week the technical advisory group will be presenting opinions generated from the comment period to the LEED Steering Committee, she reports. Then there will be a second comment period, after which the changes go to ballot. “We are on schedule for a January 2009 release of the standards,” she says.

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