by Rebecca Walker — May 23, 2011—The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Volume Program for Operations and Maintenance will launch on June 27, 2011 at the BOMA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The program, an expansion of the successful LEED Volume Program for Design and Construction, will provide companies with the option to pursue Volume certification for both new and existing buildings within their portfolios.
One of the most compelling features of the LEED Volume Program for Operations and Maintenance is the flexibility to design prototype strategies according to the specifics of an organization’s group of buildings and its management structure. When an organization has management similarities across a group of buildings, it can leverage those existing similarities to facilitate a streamlined LEED documentation process.
According to the USGBC, companies participating in the LEED Volume Program can profit in the following ways:
- Savings from a streamlined, audit-based certification review process;
- Greater economies of scale for owners and managers of large real estate portfolios; and
- Lower costs than those associated with traditional LEED certification.
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