How would you rate the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed) certification system?
The Leed standard for energy efficient building does not give credit for using less glass. The system penalises you if you use more than 40% glass-to-wall ratio in a building. Less glass is the way to save energy and construction cost. The current Leed standards and the Ashrae standard 90 for energy efficient buildings that is used by Leed need to be developed and modified and the air-conditioning equipment efficiency needs correction as the correction polynomial is out of range when we apply the Gulf weather conditions. So there are problems with the Leed system at present? Some research in the US published in Ashrae Journal in November 2008 has shown that green buildings do not conclusively save energy compared to regular buildings. Why does the Leed system give one additional credit point if we ventilate buildings 30% higher than the Ashrae standard 62? Why is less glass with higher light transmission not credited with higher points rather than penalised by both Leed and Ashrae Std.
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