Improving the link between the leed green building label and a building's energy-related environmental metrics

Journal of Green Building

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-105

  Wedding, G Christopher ^a   Crawford Brown, Douglas ^b  

^a Cherokee Investment Services   (United States)

^b Pell Frischmann   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture 2030 challenge; Carbon offsets; Green building; Green power; Greenwashing; Leed; Monte carlo analysis; Probabilistic modeling; Usgbc

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953327668     PISSN: 15526100     EISSN: 19434618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3992/jgb.3.2.85     Document Type: Article

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