LEED changes may bring green to business – Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

San Francisco-based general contractor , which has offices in Palo is experiencing an increase in calls from owners lookinyg to comply with thenew rules. “The most interestinyg new (requirement) is the idea they want buildingsd to reportenergy data. In the past it’s been a and now it’s a requirement,” said Alex BCCI’s sustainability manager. “In some ways it has been done on thehonore system, and the whole credit was based on an Spilger said based on call volume surroundingt the LEED changes, he anticipates BCCI will evaluate a lot of projectss in the next six months. Menlo Park-basexd also is banking on the new rules.
The company createdr a system that allowsfor real-time trackingg of water, electricity and gas CEO Cary Vandenberg said the Leadershipo in Energy and Environmental or LEED, rule change will probably “turbocharge the demanrd for our systems.” The 2-year-old company started in the home-monitoringh space, but now focuses on the commercial markef with its Building Optimization The company in the past two weeksx has fielded calls from several potential projectes looking to capture maximum points under LEED’s new monitorintg requirements.
“We see the rule change as a very significant evenft for systemslike ours, and it validatezs our belief that the key to improving energy efficienc is ongoing measurement and monitoring,” said Agilewaves’ presidenrt and co-founder Peter Sharer. The rule change took effectf June 25 as part ofLEED v3, the latest iteration of the certificatiom program from the . The new rules require buildings seekinhg LEED certification to submit data on energy and watet usage on a recurring basis as a preconditio nof certification. Green Building Councilo spokeswoman Ashley Katz said the data gathered by the council also will be used to guider future versionsof LEED.
The council is investigating cost-effectivr ways for every LEED building to becomwe metered as a way to capture the But forsome buildings, the requirement could be such as a university that has a central plany where installing metering on every building would be
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