LEED Certification Passes One Billionth Square Foot Mark

Food Lion has done it, Starbucks makes a point to mention that they’re doing it every couple of months, the Empire State Building is doing it, and it even won over suspected green-hater, Frank Gehry. We’re speaking, of course, about the LEED-ification in architecture, which is to say getting certified as more eco-friendly by the U.S.Green Building Council‘s LEED Green Building Rating System. While far more than just getting additional plants inside your office and stories have been filed how difficult it can be for