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has issued the guidebook to walk its agenchy project managers through the design and construction procesd to winthe U.S. Greenm Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. City agencies must adhere to the D.C. Green Building Act, which began requiring last year that substantiap publicly funded building projectsachievw LEED’s silver status or above. But city leaderse said they have set their sights higher with thisreferencer guide. “The LEED Guide is already making a difference in the said Robin-Eve Jasper, director of OPM.
“Thanks in part to the LEED OPM expects to have more LEED Gold projects like the in Southwesgt and the Department of Employment Services headquartersin Indeed, the guidebook was written as project managers were undergoing the designn and LEED application process for the $218 350,000-square-foot Consolidated Forensic Lab. The architecturalp firm Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Architects helped authorthe guidebook. Though, partl y as a result, the current guidebooik contains the steps to attainintg the current version of LEED potentially making it outdatedc whenLEED 2009, the next is set to kick in later this summer. The D.C. LEED guidebook can be found .