The Business Review West Michigan reports that the U.S. Green Building Council plans to showcase West Michigan's leadership in LEED-certified and green buildings with a new book of LEED building performance case studies and a fall tour of some of the featured structures.
According to excerpts from the story:
It's no secret there are many LEED-certified buildings in Grand Rapids — and the number is growing in West Michigan. The U.S. Green Building Council of West Michigan now is working on an effort to use that leadership as a showcase for city successes and the benefits of LEED. The project, Green Buildings of West Michigan, will pull together LEED-building-performance case studies that will result in a book and a tour in September featuring participating buildings.
The chapter had wanted to undertake such a project for some time, said USGBC West Michigan Chair Renae Hesselink. When LEED first came out, there were no requirements to demonstrate the ongoing benefits of LEED certification. "That had been bugging us," Hesselink said. "We had been wanting to prove that, yes, LEED buildings do perform better."
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