Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

Green Building Ranking System™

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) is being constructed to meet the highest green building standards of the trade: LEED Platinum status. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for sustainable design, construction, and operation of high performance buildings. By meeting certain criteria a project accumulates credits. The total number of credits a project finishes with determines its LEED status: Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum.

Developed in the 1990s, LEED has helped take green building and sustainable architecture into the mainstream. It provides building owners and operators with the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their building's performance while encouraging a shift in the global marketplace of sustainable architecture and green building.

In addition to participating the in the LEED program, where the OCSL anticipates receiving LEED Platinum status, the OCSL is a pioneering project in a complementary program, the Living Building Challenge, which is designed to push the industry beyond LEED Platinum status to the next level of sustainability.