MAY CHAPTER PROGRAM:

HOW’S LEEDWORKING OUT?

What’s been your experience with the U S Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (USGBC, LEED) green building rating system?

Whether you're an architect, engineer, specifier, product manufacturer, contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier,
you're probably dealing with green building issues. If not, get ready, because the green building trend will affect us all
soon.

By now, the environmental idealism of LEED has given way to the cold reality of having to make adjustments in the
way we put together construction documents, and the way projects get bid and built.

• The addition of green design parameters makes for a more complex design process, i.e. more work and product research
  for architects, engineers, and specifiers.
• Specifications need to include LEED criteria, as well as to specify the required LEED documentation submittals.
• AE's and Contractors have to deal with two sets of submittals, adding to the work of construction administration.
• The documentation requirements of LEED will add to Contractors’ administrative costs.
• The addition of some LEED criteria will limit Contractors' traditional latitude in selecting subs and suppliers.
• Product literature and manufacturer's websites will have to be expanded to indicate how products meet relevant
  LEED criteria, especially for recycled content and manufacturing distance from the jobsite. And manufacturers will
  have to get used to providing that information in a form acceptable to USGBC.

The May Northern Illinois CSI Chapter program will be a panel discussion of these issues and more.

We’ve assembled a panel representing all parts of the AEC industry to talk about how LEED is working.

So bring your questions, issues, gripes, observations and suggestions to the May chapter meeting and program.
With your active participation, we'll all be able to get a better sense of both the pitfalls and the
opportunities presented to us by LEED.

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The Newsletter of the Northern Illinois Chapter

May 2009 issue

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April 2009

CHAPTER MEETINGS are held on the third Thursday of the month. We meet monthly from September through November and from January through May.

CHAPTER MEETING LOCATION (Except for plant tours): Holiday Inn, 3405 Algonquin Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Algonquin Road, just east of Route 53/I290.

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