Washington, DC, June 13, 2007--USGBC has invited the public to comment on the draft LEED for Homes Rating System, which is currently in pilot testing. LEED for Homes was developed to meet the unique needs of the residential market single family and multi family homes, affordable housing and market rate projects. LEED for Homes addresses aspects of residential building such as locations, sites, homeowner awareness, energy and water concerns.
Any member of the public can comment on the draft rating system. The public comment period will be open for 32 days, starting Monday, June 11, 2007 and continuing through Thursday, July 12, 2007 midnight Pacific Standard Time. USGBC will respond to all comments, and post the comments and responses (without commenter names or organizations) to the USGBC Web site. If changes are made to the draft, a second public comment period will be conducted on those changes. The resulting draft will then be sent to the USGBC membership for balloting.
Visit the public comment page http://www.usgbc.org/leed/leeddrafts/ratingsystemversions.aspx for more information and to participate. (Note that a site user profile is required to submit comments. If you have not already created a profile on the USGBC Web site, you will be prompted to create one on the log in page.) Please contact leedinfo@usgbc.org with any questions.
