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Is It Time for LEED and Energy Star Programs to Be Updated? Blackstone’s chief sustainability officer says it s time to start collecting granular data about buildings’ sustainability performance.
Don Anderson lauds the LEED and Energy Star programs as key drivers of the green building movement. But Anderson, chief sustainability officer and operating partner at the Blackstone Group, would like to see LEED and Energy Star capitalize on the mounds of data generated about building efficiency.
LEED and Energy Star have helped form “an amazing foundation” for tracking, benchmarking and certifying the efficiency of buildings, Anderson said during a Dec. 9 webinar sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council. He doesn’t believe those two programs should be “scrapped and replaced.” The council’s LEED program rates green buildings around the world, while the federal government’s Energy Star program certifies U.S. buildings that meet energy efficiency standards.