Articles by Daniel Overbey

LEED v5 maintains the same familiar structure of prerequisites and credits, cataloged into broad-based categories. The four certification levels remain. However, one major structural change in LEED v5 is that every prerequisite and credit has been harmonized around three impact categories: decarbonization, quality of life, and ecological conservation and restoration.

While a conference of this size and magnitude offers a vast range of content and exhibits, Greenbuild 2024 harmonized around several key themes—a few of which are highlighted in this blog post.

A perspective regarding the market's uptake of green building accreditations - particularly, LEED professional credentials. Enjoy this summary, which may serve to motivate readers to pursue green building credentials.

Through public resources such at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Portfolio manager, property owners have the ability to benchmark the performance of their building assets against other buildings of the same property type and region.

More refrigerants means more carbon. We need to better prioritize refrigerants in the building sector carbon conversation.

Due to our increasing energy needs, the U.S. is (and will be) losing ground on absolute emissions reductions as we decarbonize the electrical grid. We must decarbonize the U.S. electric grid by more than 40 percent by 2050 just to break-even compared to total projected 2025 emissions.

The author provides an exhibit of BPS tools (many of which are free) that can help your team examine, disclose, and optimize your next building project for energy and operational carbon.

The following is an exhibit of over twenty tools (many of which are free) that can help your team examine, disclose, and optimize your next building project for embodied carbon. 

Occasionally, I hear contrasting—at times, even incompatible—notions about the United State's energy consumption. Word-of-mouth can allow talking points to take on lives of their own and data trends change over time. What does current data offer in terms of the U.S. energy sector?