The General Services Administration (GSA) will issue a recommendation in the fall on whether the federal government should: (1) continue using a third-party certification system as the primary federal standard for energy-saving green buildings; and (2) determine if other certification systems, besides LEED, should be accepted.
To help guide its recommendation, GSA is holding a virtual listening session on July 10 at 2:00 pm ET seeking comments on its Green Building Certification System Report (see bottom of website). If you would like to participate, you must register by July 3 and can do so by clicking here. Topics for discussion include:
- The EISA§436(h) report evaluating green building certification systems.
- Interrelationships among green building certification systems and recently promulgated green building standards (i.e. ASHRAE 189.1 and the IGCC).
- Federal high performance building design, construction and operations requirements.
- Proposed revisions to the High Performance and Sustainable Building Guiding Principles.
- Metrics to inform building performance tracking and reporting.
- Consideration of cost effectiveness: how high performance in buildings can reduce the total cost of ownership.