LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is all the rage now. It is the go-to measuring stick for green building. It measures site sustainability, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design process.

…Hurttienne sees the role of the architect as always having been to push a green agenda. “It’s new to everyone else, but to architects, we’ve been doing this forever,” he says. “The principles of architecture are so in tune with the nature of materials, the environment, site and landscaping…it’s hard to change that.”

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