LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

LEED certification provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions and was developed by the