LEED certfication professional?

Is it worthwhile to get LEED certified? What is the demand like in the building
industry to find LEED certified professionals?

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
LEED is a third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

Anybody here working on it or already have some sort of LEED certification?

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Permalink Reply by Tom Zellars on September 18, 2008 at 11:22am: Ray,

Absolutely YES! Any green architectural firm should definitely have LEED Certification. LEED is the national benchmark for green design developed by the USGBC or the U.S. Green Building Council. I have the USGBC website for you to look at.

Here's the link:
http://www.usgbc.org/

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Permalink Reply by Lou De Frog on February 23, 2009 at 6:24am: Any Government Label is valuable to the person with the designation. It is supposed to give the buyer a degree of confidence in the holder of the title. Unfortunately, any designation is only as good as the institution or organization that grants the title. Our national building code is actually the minimum standard to which a building can be constructed. The LEED program is also the minimum standard to which an energy efficient building can be built. I think that the building should be rated after construction and given a rating based on the amount of energy used by each individual occupant in the building. During the R2000 period we built great big efficient houses that used more energy than the small cabins used by early settlers, and when added to the fact that the 'efficient house' had 2 occupants and the little house had a whole family, the sillyness of the whole thing becomes quite apparent.

Last month the little business that I work for, Kitchen Dynamics, was invited to a $100 a plate awards dinner for the Better Business Bureau because we had been nominated for the Torch Award, something they award to their outstanding member business of the year. The meal cost us $600 which is probably the reason that the only people there were the nominees and the sponsors, and we did not get the award. We did not expect to win because we are not even members of the BBB and we rated the meal as at best a 1 on a scale of 10. We did however meet a very entertaining magician named Elliot Smith -' a memorable mixture of magic, comedy, fun and laughter for 40 years'.

We have decided that if we are nominated next year we will send the $100 directly to Mr. Smith.; ▶ Reply to This