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Portland, Ore. — Feb. 11, 2016 — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has approved the addition of New Buildings Institute’s (NBI) Advanced Buildings New Construction Guide as a LEED Pilot Alternative Compliance Path (ACP).
By following the prescriptive path in the New Construction Guide, projects can earn up to 10 energy points in LEED v4. This approval continues NBI’s presence in LEED as the second Advanced Buildings guide available to earn LEED points, the first being the Core Performance Guide, which is currently referenced in the Energy & Atmosphere sections of LEED 2009 and LEED v4 as an option to meet the Minimum Energy Performance prerequisite.
The New Construction Guide option for the LEED Optimize Energy Performance credits was submitted and published through USGBC’s Pilot Credit Library, which allows projects to test more innovative credits that have not been through USGBC’s complete drafting and balloting process.
“Performance and flexibility are two important elements to the effectiveness of LEED,” said Jeremy Sigmon, technical police director, USGBC. “This pilot credit/ACP offers LEED users expanded opportunity to leverage strong technical guidance for building performance from the New Buildings Institute.”
For more information on the process to use with the prescriptive path in the New Construction Guide for LEED points, click here.
For more information on the Advanced Buildings New Construction Guide, click here.
