From Dave Ramslie, with the City of Vancouver’s Sustainability Office:
Last Thursday Council passed a motion that now requires all rezonings in the City to achieve LEED Gold and to “Certify”. This is a big move for us…. The policy will hopefully result in 20 to 30 new LEED Gold certified buildings a year.
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Leed Gold certification is an exercise in green wash to a large degree: > National Research Council of Canda’s Institute for Research in Construction, … found that LEED certified buildings do not, on balance, perform more efficiently than non-LEED structures, and in many instances actually consume more energy. Furthermore, the correlation between a building’s LEED certification level (platinum, silver, molybdenum, whatever) and its relative energy efficiency was found to be notably weak <
http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/blog/david/good-news-bad-news-for-leed-in-two-recent-studies and http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-6572-not-all-leed-buildings-save-energy/