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LEED Firsts in the Carolinas
LEED by the Numbers
LEED Version 3
Credential Maintenance
Green Leasing
100
This is the First Building in the Carolinas to earn LEED Platinum for CI.
What is Optima Engineering’s Headquarters?
100
This city ranked #2 for LEED Professionals and #6 for LEED Architects per capita.
What is Charlotte?
100
This category now has a prerequisite, something it did not have in LEED v2.2.
What is Water Efficiency?
100
This is the agency to whom all CE hours are reported.
What is GBCI?
100
At 14%, this profession is the single largest user of leased office space in the U.S.
What are lawyers?
200
This LEED Gold Hotel has honeybees on its green roof and is the first LEED hotel under its corporate flag?
What is the Ritz Carlton Charlotte?
200
There are this number of counties in the Charlotte Region Chapter.
What is 37 counties?
200
This new credit category was added, in hopes of addressing regional problems.
What is Regional Priority?
200
This is the number of CE hours required every two years to maintain your LEED AP credential.
What is 30 CE hours?
200
This is the new name for fully leased office space that no one occupies because of downsizing.
What is zombie space?
300
This is the First Hotel and Restaurant in the U.S. to be certified LEED Platinum.
What is the Proximity Hotel and Printworks Bistro in Greensboro?
300
10,000 people have achieved this credential as of August, 2010.
What are LEED Green Associates?
300
This is the total amount of points possible for LEED v3, a significant jump up from the 69 possible in LEED v2.2.
What is 110 points?
300
This is the method for reporting all Credential Maintenance Program activities.
What is Self-Reporting?
300
According to CoStar, regardless of lease format, 58% of office buildings do not include this key cost in base rent.
What is energy cost?
400
This is the first LEED Core and Shell Commercial Office Building to achieve LEED Platinum in North Carolina.
What is the Duke Energy Center?
400
The USGBC has about 18,000 of these.
What are National Members?
400
Energy & Atmosphere Credit 1- "Optimize Energy Performance" went from 10 possible points to this in LEED v3.
What is 19 points?
400
This is one (of a total 7) example of an activity that may earn CE hours.
What is? - Professional Development / Cont. Education - Live Presentations - Self-Study Programs - College and University Courses - Certificates, Professional Licenses and Credentials - Authorship - LEED project participation
400
This major real estate brokerage firm has the goal of being carbon neutral by the end of 2010.
What is CB Richard Ellis?
500
This is the first National Park Visitor Center to receive LEED Gold status in the Carolinas.
What is the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitors Center in Ashville?
500
There are 5780 of these in the U.S. at last count.
What are LEED Certified Projects?
500
This category went from 14 points possible to 26 points possible in LEED v3.
What is Sustainable Sites?
500
This is the way to regain your LEED AP credentials if you fail to earn the required amount of CE hours.
What is retesting?
500
This government agency is the single biggest tenant in the U.S., and plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by 2020.
What is the US General Services Administration (GSA)?