Steve Mouzon, a studio manager Sky and design Mouzon, is an architect, planner, author and photographer of Miami, he founded the Guild New Urban, who hosts Project. SmartDwelling without. profit affiliate of the Guild is the Guild Foundation, which hosts the original green initiative.
LEED rating systems were a good idea at first, but they are become a symbol of everything that is wrong with today's green building. Get a LEED rating is slow, difficult and expensive, and the estimate is strongly biased to Gizmo green solutions that are completely ignorant of the place the building is under construction, and for whom. We need the opposite gender of the system today: one that is intelligent about where a building is constructed and it is being built for, and that is fast, easy and free for anyone to use
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The Anti-LEED rating system will be smart in four ... three new ways about where it is, and the fourth in which it serves . First, we must know where in the world it is, as we just mentioned, because a highly sustainable building in Cape Cod is ridiculously untenable on the Gulf Coast. Once the area is known, we must also know where in the region it is: the place is being ranked in or near a town, village or hamlet? Being green near Chicago is very different from being green in Cheyenne, for example. Once we know that, it is important to know if the place is in town, in the suburbs around the city or in the countryside, because sustainability on the farm is very different from sustainability downtown. And finally, we must also know that it is because green building solutions that work for the rich almost certainly will not work for the poor, and vice versa.
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If the Anti-LEED system is to be fast, easy and free, so its calculations must work very differently from LEED. Contrary to common opinion, the US Green Building Council LEED sponsoring Systems is a private company, is not part of the US government. And is supposedly the most of his money by certifying LEED accredited professionals or LEED-AP, for short. I am a. It is essential that LEED be complicated, otherwise there would be no need for certified professionals to administer, and primary money-maker USGBC disappear
But it is not only complicated. he also "hides his eyes" being in basis points, leaving a project to collect points as he wants, ignoring the things of common sense along the way. Example, you can mark almost as many points by installing a bike rack that you can preserve all historic building.
There is also fragmented. The LEED-ND system could evaluate your district as Platinum while all but ignoring the true sustainability of buildings in your neighborhood. And you can build a Platinum home or office in a place that is hideously unsustainable.
Anti-LEED rating system should not only count points. Instead, multiply the "batting average" of the settlement (city, village or hamlet) by that of the neighborhood by the building to finally find how green a building is really. And it should make the most of the calculations "under the hood", so someone using the system should take simple steps. Ideally, a person who knows how to balance their checkbook and their taxes should be able to assess their building in about an hour.
These simple steps, if chosen carefully may actually be indicators of the performance of complex systems. For example, LEED for Homes is supposed to be simpler than most LEED systems. Yet if you want to find out what your credit is to irrigate the land, it is 3 pages of relatively complex calculations. The anti-LEED system should ask an incisive question: "do you use native or adapted plants that do not require long-term irrigation here" If the answer is "yes", you get the credit if not,?. you do not do
And now it's time for a confession :. Perhaps Anti-LEED is not the best term for this new green rating system should be ... because LEED actually works in some of these parameters. LEED is designed for northern regions where it is important to close tight and collect heat effectively, but seems completely inept in hot, humid places where I do a great part of my job. LEED-ND love cities, tolerant cities, villages hate, and hate hamlets. and you're in good shape if your project is built in the city, but no luck altogether if you build in countries. Finally, because it is predisposed to Gizmo green solutions, LEED can work very well for you if you are truly rich, but not if you are middle class. And if you are poor, forget it. So let's put all LEED works well if you are a wealthy person building in a northern city. But that probably includes about 1% of the world population. We need a green building rating system for the rest of us.
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This article was published as "The Anti-LEED: A Green Rating System fast, friendly and free "on original Green. Steve Mouzon, a Sky studio manager and Mouzon design is an architect, planner, author and photographer of Miami. He founded the New Urban Guild, which hosts Project: SmartDwelling . nonprofit subsidiary of The Guild's Guild Foundation, which hosts the original green initiative.
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