by Brianna Crandall — April 28, 2014—The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched on April 23 its new online data visualization resource that highlights real-time green building data for each state in the United States and Washington, DC. The enhanced state market briefs—highlighting LEED projects, LEED-credentialed professionals, and USGBC membership in each state—provide green building advocates and the general public a look into the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building certification program’s impact within any U.S. state.
The dynamic market briefs for each state were created to supply green building advocates with on-the-ground information to tell robust stories about the multifaceted benefits of LEED green buildings, explains USGBC. Each market brief acts as a state-level barometer of economic activity taking place in an industry that McGraw-Hill projects could be worth up to $248 billion and represent more than half of all commercial and institutional construction in the U.S. by 2016.
Market briefs for countries outside the USA are available upon request, and LEED for Homes and LEED for Neighborhood Development data and projects will be added later this year, notes USGBC. The market briefs highlight data on cumulative LEED-registered and LEED-certified projects, gross square footage of LEED-registered and -certified space, project totals broken out by owner type and space type, USGBC member organizations by type, LEED professional credential holders, links to chapter(s) serving that state, and a project profile scorecard.
USGBC prioritizes data transparency and access through its data access policy campaign, its Green Building Information Gateway, and as a joint organizer of the Data Access and Transparency Alliance. USGBC asserts that no other green building organization provides access to this level of data and information, and that providing it “is critical to the success of USGBC’s mission of market transformation.
The State Market Briefs can be downloaded either as a visualization or as a raw data file, accessible from the USGBC Web site.
