All About LEED: A Guide to Obtaining Certification and Accreditation

Construction uses up a ton of resources and is typically quite harmful to the environment.

Beginning in 1993, the Natural Resources Defense Council began to develop criteria that would make construction more environmentally friendly. Thus, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) was born. There have since been a few iterations of the LEED framework, with the current version being v4.1, which was released in October 2018.