Congressional Concerns Mounting over USGBC’s Leed Program
The American Chemistry Council announced its president and CEO Cal Dooley is applauding the USGBC’s decision to delay the balloting of LEED 2012—now called LEED v4—until June 2013. However, Dooley said that delay alone will not resolve the significant problems in the proposed draft. In a letter to the U.S. General Services Administration, he called on the USGBC to comprehensively change its process and respond to Congressional concerns, including those expressed by key senators.
“I’m pleased that USGBC is acknowledging the many concerns from members of Congress, governors, state legislators and other stakeholders about the considerable problems with the current draft of LEED,” he said. “Postponing the balloting is a good first step to rectifying these problems, as it provides time for USGBC to improve LEED v4. However, the necessary improvement will only be made if USGBC embraces a true consensus process. So understandably, I am dismayed by comments USGBC already made that it intends to steadfastly retain ill-conceived measures to force builders and architects away from proven building products.