LEED CONCEPTS

(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

ADV. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION II

F.S. B.ARCH.V Rushik Chauhan (03)

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE Ashwini Pardhi (16)
M.S.U. OF BARODA Richa Shah (26)
 USGBC :-
• The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC),
• a non-profit trade organization
• promotes sustainability.
• development of the LEED green building
rating systems.

What is LEED?
• provides verification of green
buildings.

• Addresses the entire lifecycle

of a building.

• It provides building operators with

a framework
Global warming and LEED rating system:
•Education and awareness
•Climate change (one of the major driving forces).
•Foundation of the LEED rating system.
•To reduce the built environment’s contribution to
climate change.

LEED Impact Categories

• Reverse contribution to global climate change

• Enhance individual human health and well-
being
• Protect and restore water resources
• Protect, enhance, and restore biodiversity and
ecosystem services
• Promote sustainable and regenerative material
resources cycles
• Build a greener economy
• Enhance social equity, environmental justice,
community health, and quality of life
 LIFE-CYCLE APPROACH

life-cycle assessment
life-cycle costing (LCC).
(LCA)

Upstream and analytic tool

downstream activities
building systems
embodied energy
waste and by-product services
creation products
recycling and disposal
 TRIPPLE BOTTOM APPROACH

The triple bottom line involves the social (people), environmental (planet), and
economic (profit) dimensions of an organization.
 COST OF GREEN BUILDINGS
MYTH: “Green buildings have higher costs than nongreen
buildings.”
 INTEGRATIVE PROCESS
• The integrative process is the foundation of green building design and one of the core
concepts of sustainability.
• The integrative process is a design process in which multidisciplinary teams collaborate to
meet sustainable design objectives from the inception of a project to its completion.

•In the integrative design process, a team is formed at the inception of a project and
collaborates through postoccupancy.
•In the conventional design process, subcontractors meet on an as-needed basis after the
design is final.
 INTEGRATIVE PROJECT TEAM MEMBERS

An example of a design team that may be formed includes integrative project team
members such as the project owner, project user, LEED consultants, architects, and
contractors.
 ITERATIVE PROCESS
The key to managing the integrative process is to complete the following steps in an
iterative cycle until all systems are optimized:

1. Conduct research and collect data within the scope of the work.
2. Analyze the data.
3. Share data analyses with team members at group workshops.
4. Receive feedback to identify synergies, wastes, and other opportunities for savings and
efficiency across all of the disciplines.
5. Create/refine design.

The iterative process involves conducting research, sharing data, receiving feedback,
and refining a design repeatedly until all sustainable goals of the project are met.
SYSTEMS THINKING

Systems thinking is commonly used in

problem solving.
Two types
System
represent
1. Open
• Building project Systems

•Organization Open
system
•Community 2. Closed (linear
•City. Systems system)

Example of open system

 Closed
system
(cyclical
system)

Example of Close system

FEEDBACK LOOPS

A feedback loop is a structure in which

data is gathered and reported in order to
meet a desired output response.

Systems are affected by feedback loops.

The feedback can encourage a

system to continue or stop an action.

1. Negative 2. Positive
Two Feedback Feedback
types Loops Loops

Example of feedback loop

LEVERAGE POINTS

A key concept of systems thinking is the leverage point.

A leverage point is a point in a system in which a small change can yield large results.