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LEED
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LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)is the most important American association of
industries in the building sector aimed at promoting methods of design and
construction that lead to a signifcant reduction or elimination of the negative
impact that buildings have on the environment.
To enable concrete quantifcation and correct monitoring of the degree of sustainabi-
lity achieved by a building project, in 1999 the USGBC established a certifcation
procedure called LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
The LEED credits certify the eco-sustainable requisites of projects which can
“function” in a sustainable and autonomous way in terms of energy and which have a
low-environmental impact throughout their life-cycle.
The LEED system is based on the award of points for every single eco-sustainable
requisite of a project, divided into several major areas:
-sustainable construction sites
-protection of water resources
-energy eficiency and use of renewable sources
-storage, composition, and origin of construction materials and raw materials
-indoor environmental quality
-innovation in design.
Totalling up all the awarded points, the building obtains a certain eco-sustainable
level. Terratinta Ceramiche, with Stonedesign project, has achieved 6 LEED points.
MR Credit 5.1 Regional Materials 10% (1 LEED point)
MR Credit 5.2 Regional Materials 20% (1 LEED point)
SS Credit 7.1 Heat Island Efect – Nonroof (1 LEED point)
SS Credit 7.2 Heat Island Efect – Roof (1 LEED point)
EA Credit 1 Optimize Energy Performance (1 LEED point)
EQ Credit 4.2 Low Emitting Materials – Flooring Systems (1 LEED point)
The details are not
the details.
They make the design.
C. Eames
