After a year and a half working at Harvard Green Building Services as the resident rookie, we have finally had some turnover and a full-time Senior Project Coordinator position has gone live toda...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2012/06/harvard-green-building-services-is.html
You may have noticed Real Life LEED has taken a rather lengthy hiatus, and I feel like it probably time to fill you in. Since my last post I've left my position as a researcher at LS3P ASSOCIATE...
Scott Horst, Senior VP of LEED for USGBC, kicked off this session with what is starting to feel like an obligatory mea culpa about the state of LEED-Online v3 when it was launched, but quickly mo...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/leed-2012-and-greenbuild-rating-system.html
Though largely overshadowed in press by the hubbub around the Center for Green Schools launch, in my opinion the biggest news for practicing LEED APs is the relatively obscure technical developm...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/leed-automation-allows-third-party.html
This is a session review of the presentation from Amy Keller, M.Arch, EDAC and Anjali Joseph, Ph.D, EDAC, who are researchers with the Center for Health Design. Operating under a USGBC research g...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/linking-design-to-healthcare-outcomes.html
Well folks, Greenbuild is officially underway, as the opening plenary just wrapped up in McCormick Place! Not having been to Chicago since I was quite young, I'm already enamored with this city a...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/greenbuild-2010-is-here.html
I recently stumbled on the GBCI Announcements feed, and it's already led me to discover a few helpful tools that I wouldn't have otherwise known existed (CMP Wizard , anyone?) While some of the ...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/gbci-news-feed-makes-gives-you-latest.html
Shortly after complaining about changes about new policy documentation from the GBCI, it occurred to me that the USGBC also published a much needed updated to their Application Guide for Multipl...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/new-guide-provides-instructions-for.html
UPDATE (11.05.10) I just received a comment from Bruce DeMaine, Vice President of Certification for GBCI. He confirmed, as others noted in the comments below, "that THE 20-YEAR FIGURE IS A TYPO. ...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/11/gbci-extends-utility-reporting.html
My good friend Stephen Del Percio over at the Green Real Estate Law Journal just broke the fact that perennial LEED critic Henry Gifford has filed a class action suit on behalf of "consumers, t...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/10/henry-gifford-sues-usgbc-over-fraud.html
I've been looking at LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) in some detail lately, as evidenced by posts examining the system's fees and also my first experience planning the certification...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/10/leed-nd-study-examines-entire-metro.html
So I took some time today to go ahead and lock in my sessions for Greenbuild 2010, and thought you might like some guidance on the bewildering array of choices available. Last year I know the pop...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/09/greenbuild-2010-session-planner.html
Today I was tasked with determining the implications that pursuing LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification would have on current, preliminary plans for a roughly 100 acre mixed...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/09/leed-for-neighborhood-development.html
I just locked down my hotel/flight/ticket to Greenbuild 2010 in Chicago, IL, and I can't be more excited! I'll be posting about the best sessions to attend later, but in my searches for places t...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/09/booked-for-greenbuild-2010-in-chi-city.html
Kaid Benfield over at the NRDC just posted about a video a colleague of his, Eliot Allen of Criterion Planners , created showing how a sustainable development he studied would be scored if it pu...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/08/informative-hypothetical-leed-nd.html
You may remember a post from February back where I noticed the USGBC reported a decline in membership on their Member Update newsletters. I noticed today that that membership has declined furthe...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/08/usgbc-membership-shrinks-another-9.html
Tristan Roberts of Environmental Building News* recently wrote an article about how the GBCI is shifting LEED reviews back to the GBCI in an effort to reign in "inconsistencies and poor service ...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/07/gbci-94-of-leed-reviews-are-currently.html
I had a few requests today at work for clarifications on LEED fees, presumably because they're a little hard to find or that they require 3-4 clicks to get to from the main website and my coworke...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/07/every-leed-certificationaccreditation.html
A few years ago, Chad Ludeman and Nic Darling of Postgreen embarked on a journey "to build a LEED Platinum home for $100,000 in hard construction costs." Lucky for you, they not only succeeded ...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/07/learning-from-leed-homes-platinum-100k.html
Though the primary goal of RealLifeLEED is to better inform project managers and others involved in LEED documentation, every once in awhile I put up a rant about some topic that's bothering me i...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/07/success-new-official-leed-checklists.html
A few days ago I got a very interesting email from my new best friend Dan Overbey of Browning Day Mullins Deirdorf Architects . He relayed a story about a client who was building a 16,000 sf hor...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/07/leed-size-gap-when-additionrenovation.html
Despite the fact that I almost live on the interwebs and have a penchant for butchering images in photoshop, I'm not the most technologically advanced person when it comes to Revit and the bevy o...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/06/daylighting-simulation-in-leed-2009-2.html
A few weeks ago I was provided with a copy of The Cost of LEED whitepaper ($49 + shipping) from BuildingGreen *, and I must say I'm impressed. The report is by no means flawless, but it's the fi...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/06/cost-of-leed-review-relatively-great.html
Though it hasn't received a tremendous amount of attention*, part of the LEED v3 updates included various paths by which LEED project registrations can be cancelled and people can challenge exist...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/06/5-ways-your-leed-project-certification.html
or How I learned to stop worrying and just self report One of the biggest initial complaints about the new LEED Credentialing Maintenance Program (CMP) was that people who sign up were going...
http://www.reallifeleed.com/2010/05/95-free-online-leed-cmp-continuing.html