| LEED V3: |
 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a third party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings in both commercial and residential fields. Since the LEED for New Construction rating system entered pilot testing in April 1998, LEED has evolved to become the nation’s benchmark for high-performance green buildings, providing third-party verification and continually raising the bar on the way we design, build and operate buildings.Today, we have LEED rating systems that address all building types and uses through every stage of a building’s life cycle. LEED’s ability to grow and evolve has been among its greatest strengths as new building science and technologies have emerged, as our understanding of the role the built environment plays in our health and the health of our planet has deepened, and as the building industry has undergone substantial transformation in its embrace of green building practices. |
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LEED V3 is composed of three major components:
LEED 2009 harmonizes, aligns and reweights the LEED credits across all the LEED rating systems for commercial and institutional buildings – LEED for New Construction, LEED for Core & Shell, LEED for Commercial Interiors, LEED for Schools, andLEED for Existing Buildings.LEED 2009 was developed through USGBC’s consensus-based process, including the LEED Steering Committee, public comment, and balloting among USGBC’s member organizations. |
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 LEED Online, the tool LEED project teams use to manage the LEED registration and certification processes, is being improved for greater speed, more reliability and a better user experience.
The process of building certification is now administered by the Green Building Certification Institute, established in January 2008 to provide third-party project certification and professional credentials recognizing excellence in green building performance and practice.
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| LEED Project Profiles in Central Texas |
LEED Platinum
Dell Children's Medical Center
Ronald McDonald House Austin
Tonala’calli
LEED Gold
Austin City Hall
LCRA Emergency Operations Center
Office Depot
LEED Silver
Austin Resource Center for the Homeless
Trane San Antonio District Office
LEED Certified
City of Austin Carver Library
City of Austin Carver Museum
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Featured LEED Projects:
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Sustainable Healing: Green Design Promotes Therapy - Envisioned as a model of sustainability from initial project conception, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, the world’s first LEED Platinum healthcare facility. View Profile
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A greener gathering place for community interaction and learning - The George Washington Carver library was an expansion of the existing branch library located next to the historic Carver Museum. After an addition of 9,000 sq. ft., this facility became a large 15,000 sq. ft. branch library. View Profile |
Port San Antonio Headquarters' LEED Gold Certification
It is the first commercial building in San Antonio to be LEED Gold-certified under USGBC’s commercial interiors category and only the fourth Gold-certified building in the city. View More
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GOLD rated Zachry Construction headquarters leads the way in San Antonio as the city's first building to be certified under LEED. (click on image for article) |
| Tonala’calli is Austin’s First Certified LEED® Home - As a professor and Director of UT's Petrophysics program, Carlos, with Laurel, a Biologist by education and translator by day, this modest couple have always been environmentally conscious. Winning awards for her landscaping and his Bonsai hobby at their previous home, creating this home is a dream come true. Full Article |
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Sustainable design practices honor and re-invigorates an underutilized area of San Antonio. The SoFlo Office Studios by OCO Architects in San Antonio, Texas, earns LEED Certification. Full Article |
| Green Mountain Energy's Austin Coporate Offices are certified Silver under LEED Commercial Interiors ... click here
For GME LEED Scorecard, click here. |
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Want to Share Your LEED Certified Project?
To have your Central Texas LEED Certified Project on this page please contact us at projectprofiles@usgbc-centraltexas.org.
To check out local press coverage of LEED projects click here. |
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