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LEED
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most widely used green building rating system in the world
Type of content:
Assets
Type of asset:
Framework
Big data potential
No
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Implementation
TRL
9
Implementation/customisation cost
High
Open license availability
No
Ease of use
High
Tags:
Standardisation of processes
Performance Measurement
Addresses:
| SWOT Analysis for LEED |
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| Helpful | Harmful | |
Internal |
Strengths• Most widely used green building rating system in the world: 2.4 million+ square feet are certified every day with more than 94,000 projects using LEED. • Flexibility: Available for virtually all building, community and home project types. Works for all building types anywhere. (over 165 countries and territories.) • Provides a framework to create healthy, highly efficient and cost-saving green buildings. Buildings save energy, water, resources, generate less waste and support human health. • LEED certification is a globally recognised symbol of sustainability achievement. |
Weaknesses• No open License availability |
External |
Opportunities• Inspire project teams to seek innovative solutions • Support public health and our environment • Saving building owners money over a project’s life cycle. • Investment in sustainability and green buildings • Lack of sophisticated categorisation of green building types and reflecting the heterogeneity of green building costs |
Threats• Restriction of database and case studies to the availability of data and reflecting only specific types of green buildings. • High implementation/ customisation cost • No open License availability • Difficulty of demanding empirical studies (subjective and objective). • Lack of sophisticated categorisation of green building types and reflecting the heterogeneity of green building costs, which may result in finding false correlations between variables. • Normalisation of data if gathered from various sources to minimise data collection errors |
