What everyone should know about Sustainable Building

By David Leonhardt and Corey Rozon

Many people are becoming more interested in building green and in the rating system known as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), which helps to define what elements make a building green.

From home builders and renovators to the industrial sector that supplies the green building materials, every industry is embracing LEED certification. Buildings that have effectively met or exceeded the LEED certification efficiently use resources such as water, land, materials and energy.

“LEED certification will provide challenges to the industry including the need to ensure an understanding of a new generation of materials properties and developing the practices and processes needed to ensure specifications and finished products meet the standards of green building. I am especially exited to be part of this process and in making a contribution towards shaping new building technologies.” Ken Moscrip, President of Paramount Roll and Forming - one of Southern California’s most prominent metal rolling companies.

Consisting of a clear set of environmental performance criteria organized into six categories, the Canadian version of LEED, which is very similar to the USGBC version, is listed below:

• Sustainable Sites


• Water Efficiency


• Energy and Atmosphere


• Materials & Resources


• Indoor Environmental Quality


• Innovation in Design

• Reduced energy costs


• Reduced water usage


• Reduction in resource consumption


• Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

• In Canada - Canada Green Building Council www.cagbc.org


• In United States - U.S. Green Building Council www.usgbc.org

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ABOUT THE WRITERS
David Leonhardt and Corey Rozon are freelance business writers from Canada.
Special thanks goes to Paramount-Roll, specializing in bending steel, Service Blocks, home improvements in Ottawa, and Durisol Build, the makers of insulated concrete forms, for making themselves available to answer my questions.

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