Members of the U.S. Green Building Council have voted to adopt LEED v4, the next update to the organization’s green building rating system. The final overall vote was 86% in favor of adopting the new version.
“There are 46 countries and territories around the world and all 50 U.S. states represented in the voting pool for LEED v4, which includes an extraordinarily diverse group of industry professionals, manufacturers, educators, and other green building leaders,” said Joel Ann Todd, chair of the LEED steering committee. “USGBC sets a very high bar for a rating system to be approved. The rating system must earn a significant percentage of the overall vote as well as a majority approval from each of the various LEED stakeholder groups. This ensures that rating system approval represents the full diversity of USGBC’s membership.”