Sentences with phrase «standards like leed»

Studies indicate that workers in more environmentally sound buildings (such as those certified to standards like LEED, Green Globes and BOMA GO Green Plus) provide a more comfortable work environment that boosts productivity.

Fannie Mae also offers lower interest rates for apartment properties that can meet high green building standards like LEED.

As a result, owners of older affordable housing properties are able to take advantage of Green Preservation Plus without going through the kind of gut rehab that's often required for an older building to meet a standard like LEED.

To qualify, the green improvements don't need to go so far as to meet a green standard like LEED, though they do need to show measurable results.

Not exact matches

A team at the University of Leeds used a standard TENS machine like those designed to relieve labour pains to apply electrical pulses to the tragus, the small raised flap at the front of the ear immediately in front of the ear canal.

Green - e is recommended or required in leading environmental standards like Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), The Climate Registry (TCR), B Corporation, Cradle to Cradle, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, and others.

As noted yesterday, the Passivhaus standard is less prescriptive than alternative green building systems like LEED or BuiltGreen.

Passive Houses in fact do have a designation very much like LEED, established by the PassivHaus Institute - they have to come up to a certain standard, and here it is, compared to other standards:

Bernstein has a thing about points systems; he doesn't like LEED or Berkeley's green standard, which he criticized in his drive - by shooting of Mitch Kapor's house and agrees with Gehry, who said