This major real estate brokerage firm and Chapter Silver Sponsor has the goal of being carbon neutral by the end of 2010.
What is CB Richard Ellis?
100
This Water Use Reduction feature is identified in the adjacent photograph.
What is a Rainwater Cistern?
100
This city ranked #2 for LEED Professionals and #6 for LEED Architects per capita.
What is Charlotte?
100
Providing these (see photograph), plus parking spaces, for 3% of the building's occupants will earn you SS Credit 4.3.
What are Alternative Fuel Vehicles?
100
'I'll drink to that!' This category now has a prerequisite, something it did not have in LEED Version 2.2.
What is Water Efficiency?
200
Another name for when the benefits and interests of landlords and tenants are not in allignment.
What are Split Incentives?
200
The adjacent photograph identifies this method, which conserves a great amount of water when compared to sprinklers.
What is Drip Irrigation?
200
There are this many counties currently in the Charlotte Region Chapter.
What is 37?
200
Technologies such as Bioremediation, Pumping and Treating of Contaminated Groundwater, and Solar Detoxification are all used to treat and remediate this type of previously developed site.
What is a Brownfield?
200
This new credit category was added in Version 3, in hopes of addressing regional problems.
What is Regional Priority?
300
According to CoStar, regardless of lease format, 58% of office buildings do not include this key everyday cost in base rent.
What is Energy Cost?
300
Waterless Urinals, which eliminate the need for supply water for sewage, are an example of this credit.
What is Innovative Wastewater Technologies?
300
Over 10,000 people have have achieved this credential as of August 2010.
What are LEED Green Associates?
300
Constructing an on-site Bioretention Basin and Vegetated Filter Strips help to achieve points in this credit.
What is Stormwater Management (SS Credit 6)? (SS Credit 6.1-Rate and Quantity or SS Credit 6.2- Treatment are also acceptable)
300
This is the total amount of points possible for LEED Version 3, which represents a significant jump up from the 69 points possible in LEED Version 2.2.
What is 110 points?
400
In 2009, of the approximately 70 billion square feet of commercial office space in the US, this tiny percentage was LEED Certified.
What is 1%?
400
The adjacent photographs identify this method of water efficient landscaping, which reduces or eliminates the need for potable water irrigation, often by using drought-resistant plants.
What is Xeriscaping?
400
USGBC has about 18,000 of these. Are you one of them?
What are National Members?
400
The parking deck adjacent to this popular downtown Charlotte museum became a proving ground for non-irrigated green roofs back in 2006.
What is Discovery Place?
400
The number of possible points for Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1 - 'Optimize Energy Performance' almost doubled in LEED Version 3, going from 10 possible points to this number of points in LEED Version 3.
What is 19 points?
500
This federal government agency is the single largest tenant in the U.S. A leader in sustainability, it plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by the year 2020.
What is US General Services Administration (or GSA)?
500
The Species Factor, Density Factor, and Microclimate Factor are used to determine this, which is the volume of water lost via evapotranspiration.
What is the Landscape Coefficient?
500
There are over 5,780 of these projects in the U.S. as of September, 2010.
What are LEED Certified Projects?
500
A site must be developed at this many square feet per acre in order to achieve SS Credit 2 - Urban Redevelopment.
What is 60,000 s.f.?
500
Perhaps because of the influence of landscape architects and civil engineers, this category went from 14 to 26 possible points in LEED Version 3.