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GBCI Credential Maintenance Program
With the rolling end of the LEED AP Opt-in period upon us, many of the “original” LEED APs at my firm have very recently become LEED APs with specialty. Among other things, this means that they will now have to complete 30 hour of continuing education every two years in the GBCI Credential Maintenance Program ...
Ray Anderson’s Legacy
A little over a week ago, Ray Anderson, the chairman and founder of Interface Carpet, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. I wanted to write this post a week ago, but, frankly, I have been struggling with words to describe why Ray Anderson has been such an instrumental figure in the environmentalism movement ...
Kutol Products Company Earns LEED Silver
As many of you know, I am routinely involved in the LEED certification processes of both projects that my firm, SHP, designs as well as projects that other architecture firms design as a LEED consultant. Late last week, one of my consulting projects became the first LEED 2009 project I have worked on to achieve ...
LEED AP Enrollment Window Closing
On August 1, the “enrollment window” for people holding the original LEED AP credential to “opt-in” to the new LEED AP with Specialty Credential will begin to close. During the enrollment window, LEED APs can chose to become a LEED AP with specialty by either agreeing to a prescriptive continuing education path or taking just ...
NeoCon 2011: Life Cycle Assessment
My coworker, Carrie Malatesta, and I were very honored to be selected as speakers for this year’s NeoCon Interior Design Conference and Expo and we spoke last wednesday. Our session, Hidden Costs: Product Selection with Life Cycle Assessment in Mind aimed to act as a starting point for anyone wanting to delve into the very ...
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