State and local new building legisl...

State and local new building legislative programs began sprouting up in the late 1990 spurr on the advent of the U recent Building Council's LEED recent building rating system. The unravelling of LEED for strange Construction, coupled with the USGBC's efforts to encourage states, counties, and municipalities to adopt LE as a de facto standard, alerted discussion of sustainable design and construction in an ever-growing number of jurisdictions. (1)
The goal of these legislative and regulatory programs has been to motivate Building Teams to apply verdant design in public or