Dive summary:
- It's the General Services Administration's job to recommend what green-building standard – or standards – the government should use to gauge the performance of current and future buildings, and the agency is seeking public input through early April on the choice.
- The contenders are LEED 2009, which is in use now; Green Globes, and the Living Building Challenge.
- The goal is to recommend how the federal government should measure new construction and retrofits.
From the article:
GSA, which is required to evaluate rating systems every five years, currently is evaluating three.....