Abstract
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has become the de facto standard green building rating system in the US. On April 27, 2009 the US Green Building Council launched LEED v3 which is a major change to the previous version, becoming more flexible and prioritizing energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. In particular, the prerequisites and credits amongst the various “flavors” of LEED have been harmonized for increased consistency, credit weights have been adjusted to better reflect impact on human and environmental health concerns, and credit weightings now reflect regional environmental issues. Acoustical consultants and engineers need to be aware of and understand these changes because they need to work with architects and other engineers who are designing buildings to meet the new LEED requirements. In this presentation, LEED v3 and the current implementation, LEED 2009, are reviewed.
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