Rob was the driving force behind the LEED building rating system at the US Green Building Council.
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Here at the U.S. Green Building Council, we've seen an explosion in the number of existing buildings attaining LEED.
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Every new building completed since 2006 has earned a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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All public buildings are basically built with the U.S. Green Building Council.
Another example would be the little-known fact that we were one of the co-founders of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1994.
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To that end, today TripAdvisor launched a new rating service called TripAdvisor Green Leaders, in partnership with Energy Star, the U.S. Green Building Council and the United Nations Environment Program.
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But even beyond that, I'd like to personally thank them for so elegantly capturing the mission of the U.S. Green Building Council, our members and our community: Better Buildings .
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The voluntary challenge was quickly adopted by many industry groups and governments, including the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Governors Association, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The primary concern, per the Fast Company article, is that the U.S. Green Building Council is a private organization and has no governmental oversight but these mandates are actually laws that must be followed.
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But Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, supported the latest details outlined by Mr Clegg, saying that the Green Investment Bank would play a central role in the green economy.
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Now the U.S. Green Building Council has a pilot project to award credits under its LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system for the use of materials that have EPDs.
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The designers expect their creation to be the first airline terminal in the country to get an official green stamp of approval, in the form of a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council that awards points for buildings that incorporate various energy efficiency and water conservation features as well as providing such things as bike racks.
It earned the label by meeting standards developed by the Indian Green Building Council, the local chapter of U.S. Green Building Council, which created LEED standards. (Here I must give a shout-out to my hometown San Francisco International Airport, whose Terminal 2 also won gold certification, soon after Delhi did.) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad also won a LEED-Silver rating.
One of the first areas where Professor Bahaj will contribute to the council's policies is in green building development.
The council will not allow building on the green belt up to 2016 but accepts it will need to review that post-2016.
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Council proposals now include building hundreds of houses on green belt land in Bath, Whitchurch and Keynsham.
The council's housing proposals for the next 15 years had avoided building on the green belt - although some greenfield sites had been identified.
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