The mandate is now LEED Gold, but university planners target LEED Platinum for new construction.
Every new building completed since 2006 has earned a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
The newest addition to this movement is the LEED Gold certified International Motorsports Center, better known as the headquarters building for NASCAR.
The new facility will be oriented around a central plaza with views overlooking the adjacent Sunnyvale golf course and will be constructed to LEED Gold standards.
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And, this is only the beginning of her problems, because the failure to deliver LEED gold certification could result in the major tenant asserting its own damages against her.
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The bank that lent money to her for the retrofit on condition that LEED Gold certification is awarded, declares a default and requires her to immediately repay her loan in full.
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She advertises that her building has applied for LEED Gold certification and signs a lease with a major tenant who has a corporate mandate to rent space only in LEED Gold facilities.
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Finally, we shined a spotlight on Katy Perry's debut on American Idol as a LED-studded Extraterrestrial, and we took an exclusive look inside New York City's first LEED gold skyscraper - the Hearst Tower!
The designers expect their creation to be the first airline terminal in the country to get an official green stamp of approval, in the form of a LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Several eco-friendly construction and design features helped the building earn a total of 43 points towards LEED Gold certification including the use of materials with recycled content, regionally sourced materials, energy efficiency upgrades and windows with a special coating to reduce heat transmission.
On the green front, all steel-framed Connect:Homes are designed to attain LEED Silver certification out the door, with Gold and Platinum certification and net-zero energy status a possibility depending on additional bells and whistles added at the installation site.
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It earned the label by meeting standards developed by the Indian Green Building Council, the local chapter of U.S. Green Building Council, which created LEED standards. (Here I must give a shout-out to my hometown San Francisco International Airport, whose Terminal 2 also won gold certification, soon after Delhi did.) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad also won a LEED-Silver rating.
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