Energy Jumpstart: A New Pathway to LEED-EB

摘要

When you see a LEED plaque on a building, there are a few things you can be sure that it signifies, regardless of whether it is Certified, Silver, Gold or Platinum. One such certainty is that the building has met the mandatory prerequisite for energy efficiency. For LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EBOM), that prerequisite (Energy & Atmosphere Prerequisite 2, or EAp2) requires an ENERGY STAR score of at least 69 for buildings eligible to participate. This ensures that all buildings are satisfying base-level energy efficiency goals in addition to all of the other strategies and operational protocols implemented to improve environmental performance and human health.