Comments on: Seattle has the most LEED certified buildings but is it the greenest? http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/04/23/seattle-has-the-most-leed-certified-buildings-but-is-it-the-greenest/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: keith http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/04/23/seattle-has-the-most-leed-certified-buildings-but-is-it-the-greenest/#comment-90 keith Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:10:33 +0000 http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/04/23/seattle-has-the-most-leed-certified-buildings-but-is-it-the-greenest/#comment-90 Can't say why LEED has caught on here but, even as a LEED AP, I question the validity if the rating system since it focuses explicitly on the energy use of the actual building rather than how the building is used. For instance, the very existence of <a href="http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=97&contentId=7030209" rel="nofollow">Helios House</a>, a LEED certified <i>gas station</i> in Los Angeles, turns me off immensely, as I'm sure it does most people. Having lived in Texas and Colorado, I can comfortably say that Seattle has a "greener mentality" but we are also years behind even Dallas on light rail. Can’t say why LEED has caught on here but, even as a LEED AP, I question the validity if the rating system since it focuses explicitly on the energy use of the actual building rather than how the building is used. For instance, the very existence of Helios House, a LEED certified gas station in Los Angeles, turns me off immensely, as I’m sure it does most people.

Having lived in Texas and Colorado, I can comfortably say that Seattle has a “greener mentality” but we are also years behind even Dallas on light rail.

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