By Oles Morrison on November 7, 2013 | Posted in LEED
On October 25, 2013, the U.S. General Services Administration (“GSA”) concluded that federal agencies should continue to use third party rating systems to evaluate the performance of federal buildings. Specifically, GSA advocated that agencies use U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED green building rating system or the Green Globes system […]
By Oles Morrison on December 31, 2011 | Posted in LEED
It appears that, despite media coverage to the contrary, Congress can agree on something. That something is the ban on federal defense spending for the highest LEED certifications. As we initially discussed here in our August 23, 2011 post, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for […]