LEED Points for Platinum: A Quick Profile of Green Buildings and Spaces

Say what you want about the ongoing arms race in LEED points, but there will always be a good and valid reason why these buildings and spaces are awarded with a Platinum rating, the highest credential given by USGBC. Take…

neoli23 September 2012

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Green Building in the Third World Countries

Green building, for the most part, has been confined to First World nations, and for a good reason. Highly industrialized countries are owning up to their intensive energy use and massive carbon footprint, and if there’s anyone who should be…

neoli18 September 2012

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Green Celebrations: Throwing an Eco Party.

Your office has green walls and green roofs and bright green spaces. Yay! But the greening shouldn’t stop there. Employees and practically everyone in the office need greening up too, and what better way to instill green attitudes in everyone…

neoli10 September 2012

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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer (PART TWO)

On and off, too, SFI has variously dealt in greenwashing (ad campaigns here, letter of appeals there, more PR’s over there). And because apparently mere peaceable wooing wasn’t enough, SFI has resorted to launching smear attacks on FSC. And the…

neoli31 August 2012

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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer

So the war in the woods rages on. For the average folk, this war in the woods might conjure images of those anthropomorphic trees in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—the Ents—the ones that got so enraged because of all…

neoli29 August 2012

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Eco-friendly Paint: Why You Should Paint Green

We’ve had it with toxic paints. Ever since lead got banned from household paints in 1978, we’ve always thought that it’d be a whole lot safer to breathe the air in our homes from then on. Then we caught whiff…

neoli23 August 2012

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China Smart Grid Wises Up On Energy Use

For the next four years, all eyes are on China as it embarks on its most ambitious project to date: the construction of a massive infrastructure meant to wire up the entire country in a smart grid. This radical switch…

neoli19 August 2012

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Notes about Dongtan Eco-city

I first read about Dongtan in Wired magazine back in 2007. The article, Pop-Up Cities, detailed the ambitious plans for the world’s first eco-city eco-city to be built from scratch on the marshy island of Chongming somewhere in China. It all…

neoli12 August 2012

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Eco-Wrapping: Sustainable, Green Packaging

There are very real reasons why we haven’t totally eliminated packaging from products. Even if we aim for zero packaging or green packaging and declare less is more, there are some products that just need to be wrapped up in one…

neoli9 August 2012

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LEED Milestones: A Timeline

USGBC’s press release dated July 26, 2012 proudly declares that “the total footprint of commercial projects certified under its LEED green building program surpassed two billion square feet.” No doubt that’s a lot of green, clean space, and so we…

neoli31 July 2012

4 responses to “LEED Points for Platinum: A Quick Profile of Green Buildings and Spaces”

Milestones of LEED during the last 12 Years
20 October 2012
[…] 2000 LEED-NC v.1.0, LEED’s pilot version, is established. The Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Maryland gets Platinum rating. […]
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YANG CHING HIAN
22 September 2014
Hi there, may I know the LEED score points for The Philip Merrill Environmental Center? I am currently conducting a research on the list of green buildings around the world. Thank you very much.
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1. alex
  8 October 2014
  Thank you for your comment! The Center was awarded 36 out of the possible 51 points. This was for the very first batch of LEED projects in LEED Pilot 1.0 so the point system is different than what we use today. See here the link to the project site on GBIG, which should be a great resource for your research: http://www.gbig.org/activities/leed-10057404. Good luck!
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