USGBC Expands Data Collection from LEED Buildings

August 25, 2010
By Peter Yost and Allyson Wendt - This article originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has begun collecting energy- and water-use data from LEED-certified buildings, and is promising preliminary performance reports for building owners participating in its Building Performance Partnership (BPP) by November 2010.

In 2009 USGBC announced that buildings certified under LEED 2009 would be required share energy- and water-use data (see “New USGBC Initiative Targets Building Performance”). There has been much debate in recent years about whether LEED-certified buildings actually perform as well as their LEED designation suggests they should. BPP should bring a big expansion in the amount of data available, leading to richer and more reliable analysis in the future. “[BPP] is the foundation of USGBC’s commitment to a meaningful demonstration of the value of building and operating green,” says Scot Horst, senior vice president of LEED for USGBC. Brendan Owens, P.E., vice president for LEED technical development, adds that BPP is intended to help underachieving projects identify and fix performance problems. Read the whole article at this link.