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###LEED Credits - New Construction - LEED v4.md

Credit	Type of Credit	Number of Credits	Intent (Summary)
Integrative process	Integrative process credits	Credit | 1 point	To support high-performance, cost-effective project outcomes through an early analysis of the interrelationships among systems.
LEED for Neighborhood Development location	Location & transportation	Credit | Up to 20 points	To avoid development on inappropriate sites. To reduce vehicle distance traveled. To enhance livability and improve human health by encouraging daily physical activity.
Sensitive land protection	Location & transportation	Credit | 2 points	To avoid the development of environmentally sensitive lands and reduce the environmental impact from the location of a building on a site.
High priority site	Location & transportation	Credit | Up to 3 points	To encourage project location in areas with development constraints and promote the health of the surrounding area.
Surrounding density and diverse uses	Location & transportation	Credit | Up to 6 points	To conserve land and protect farmland and wildlife habitat by encouraging development in areas with existing infrastructure. To promote walkability, and transportation efficiency and reduce vehicle distance traveled. To improve public health by encouraging daily physical activity.
Access to quality transit	Location & transportation	Credit | Up to 6 points	To encourage development in locations shown to have multimodal transportation choices or otherwise reduced motor vehicle use, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and other environmental and public health harms associated with motor vehicle use.
Bicycle facilities	Location & transportation	Credit | 1 point	To promote bicycling and transportation efficiency and reduce vehicle distance traveled. To improve public health by encouraging utilitarian and recreational physical activity.
Reduced parking footprint	Location & transportation	Credit | 1 point	To minimize the environmental harms associated with parking facilities, including automobile dependence, land consumption, and rainwater runoff.
Green vehicles	Location & transportation	Credit | 1 point	To reduce pollution by promoting alternatives to conventionally fueled automobiles.
Construction activity pollution prevention	Sustainable sites	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce pollution from construction activities by controlling soil erosion, waterway sedimentation, and airborne dust.
Site assessment	Sustainable sites	Credit | 1 point	To assess site conditions before design to evaluate sustainable options and inform related decisions about site design.
Site development - protect or restore habitat	Sustainable sites	Credit | Up to 2 points	To conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to provide habitat and promote biodiversity.
Open space	Sustainable sites	Credit | 1 point	To create exterior open space that encourages interaction with the environment, social interaction, passive recreation, and physical activities.
Rainwater management	Sustainable sites	Credit | Up to 3 points	To reduce runoff volume and improve water quality by replicating the natural hydrology and water balance of the site, based on historical conditions and undeveloped ecosystems in the region.
Heat island reduction	Sustainable sites	Credit | Up to 2 points	To minimize effects on microclimates and human and wildlife habitats by reducing heat islands.
Light pollution reduction	Sustainable sites	Credit | 1 point	To increase night sky access, improve nighttime visibility, and reduce the consequences of development for wildlife and people.
Tenant design and construction guidelines	Sustainable sites	Credit | 1 point	To educate tenants in implementing sustainable design and construction features in their tenant improvement build-outs.
Outdoor water use reduction	Water efficiency	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce outdoor water consumption.
Indoor water use reduction	Water efficiency	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce indoor water consumption.
Building-level water metering	Water efficiency	Prerequisite | Required	To support water management and identify opportunities for additional water savings by tracking water consumption.
Outdoor water use reduction	Water efficiency	Credit | Up to 2 points	To reduce outdoor water consumption.
Indoor water use reduction	Water efficiency	Credit | Up to 6 points	To reduce indoor water consumption.
Cooling tower water use	Water efficiency	Credit | Up to 2 points	To conserve water used for cooling tower makeup while controlling microbes, corrosion, and scale in the condenser water system.
Water metering	Water efficiency	Credit | 1 point	To support water management and identify opportunities for additional water savings by tracking water consumption.
Fundamental commissioning and verification	Energy & atmosphere	Prerequisite | Required	To support the design, construction, and eventual operation of a project that meets the owner’s project requirements for energy, water, indoor environmental quality, and durability.
Minimum energy performance	Energy & atmosphere	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce the environmental and economic harms of excessive energy use by achieving a minimum level of energy efficiency for the building and its systems.
Building-level energy metering	Energy & atmosphere	Prerequisite | Required	To support energy management and identify opportunities for additional energy savings by tracking building-level energy use.
Fundamental refrigerant management	Energy & atmosphere	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce stratospheric ozone depletion.
Enhanced commissioning	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | Up to 6 points	To further support the design, construction, and eventual operation of a project that meets the owner’s project requirements for energy, water, indoor environmental quality, and durability.
Optimize energy performance	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | Up to 18 points	To achieve increasing levels of energy performance beyond the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental and economic harms associated with excessive energy use.
Advanced energy metering	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | 1 point	To support energy management and identify opportunities for additional energy savings by tracking building-level and system-level energy use.
Demand response	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | Up to 2 points	To increase participation in demand response technologies and programs that make energy generation and distribution systems more efficient, increase grid reliability, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewable energy production	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | Up to 3 points	To reduce the environmental and economic harms associated with fossil fuel energy by increasing self-supply of renewable energy .
Enhanced refrigerant management	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | 1 point	To reduce ozone depletion and support early compliance with the Montreal Protocol while minimizing direct contributions to climate change.
Green power and carbon offsets	Energy & atmosphere	Credit | Up to 2 points	To encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through the use of grid-source, renewable energy technologies and carbon mitigation projects.
Storage and collection of recyclables	Material & resources	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce the waste that is generated by building occupants and hauled to and disposed of in landfills.
Construction and demolition waste management planning	Material & resources	Prerequisite | Required	To reduce construction and demolition waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities by recovering, reusing, and recycling materials.
Building life-cycle impact reduction	Material & resources	Credit | Up to 6 points	To encourage adaptive reuse and optimize the environmental performance of products and materials.
Building product disclosure and optimization - environmental product declarations	Material & resources	Credit | Up to 2 points	To encourage the use of products and materials for which life-cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts. To reward project teams for selecting products from manufacturers who have verified improved environmental life-cycle impacts.
Building product disclosure and optimization - sourcing of raw materials	Material & resources	Credit | Up to 2 points	To encourage the use of products and materials for which life cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life cycle impacts. To reward project teams for selecting products verified to have been extracted or sourced in a responsible manner.
Building product disclosure and optimization - material ingredients	Material & resources	Credit | Up to 2 points	To encourage the use of products and materials for which life-cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts. To reward project teams for selecting products for which the chemical ingredients in the product are inventoried using an accepted methodology and for selecting products verified to minimize the use and generation of harmful substances. To reward raw material manufacturers who produce products verified to have improved life-cycle impacts.
Construction and demolition waste management	Material & resources	Credit | Up to 2 points	To reduce construction and demolition waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities by recovering, reusing, and recycling materials.
Minimum indoor air quality performance	Indoor environmental quality	Prerequisite | Required	To contribute to the comfort and well-being of building occupants by establishing minimum standards for indoor air quality (IAQ).
Environmental tobacco smoke control	Indoor environmental quality	Prerequisite | Required	To prevent or minimize exposure of building occupants, indoor surfaces, and ventilation air distribution systems to environmental tobacco smoke.
Enhanced indoor air quality strategies	Indoor environmental quality	Credit | Up to 2 points	To promote occupants’ comfort, well-being, and productivity by improving indoor air quality.
Low-emitting materials	Indoor environmental quality	Credit | Up to 3 points	To reduce concentrations of chemical contaminants that can damage air quality, human health, productivity, and the environment.
Construction indoor air quality management plan	Indoor environmental quality	Credit | 1 point	To promote the well-being of construction workers and building occupants by minimizing indoor air quality problems associated with construction and renovation.
Daylight	Indoor environmental quality	Credit | Up to 3 points	To connect building occupants with the outdoors, reinforce circadian rhythms, and reduce the use of electrical lighting by introducing daylight into the space.
Quality views	Indoor environmental quality	Credit | 1 point	To give building occupants a connection to the natural outdoor environment by providing quality views.
Innovation	Innovation	Credit | Up to 5 points	To encourage projects to achieve exceptional or innovative performance.
LEED Accredited Professional	Innovation	Credit | 1 point	To encourage the team integration required by a LEED project and to streamline the application and certification process .
Regional priority	Regional priority	Credit | Up to 4 points	To provide an incentive for the achievement of credits that address geographically specific environmental, social equity, and public health priorities.
Must be in a permanent location on existing land	Minimum program requirements	Prerequisite | Required	The LEED rating system is designed to evaluate buildings, spaces, and neighborhoods in the context of their surroundings. A significant portion of LEED requirements are dependent on the project’s location, therefore it is important that LEED projects are evaluated as permanent structures. Locating projects on existing land is important to avoid artificial land masses that have the potential to displace and disrupt ecosystems.
Must use reasonable LEED boundaries	Minimum program requirements	Prerequisite | Required	The LEED rating system is designed to evaluate buildings, spaces, or neighborhoods, and all environmental impacts associated with those projects. Defining a reasonable LEED boundary ensures that project is accurately evaluated.
Must comply with project size requirements	Minimum program requirements	Prerequisite | Required	The LEED rating system is designed to evaluate buildings, spaces, or neighborhoods of a certain size. The LEED requirements do not accurately assess the performance of projects outside of these size requirements.
Walkable project site	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To incorporate design elements that promote walking, biking, and other non-motorized transportation on the project site and in the surrounding community to reduce vehicle distance traveled, increase public health, and enhance community participation.
Bird collision deterrence	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Reduce bird injury and mortality from in-flight collisions with buildings.
Renewable energy - distributed generation	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To support the installation of distributed renewable energy generation.
Enhanced acoustical performance - exterior noise control	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Reduce impact of environmental noise from building and/or site on community noise which can help mitigate sleep disturbance and general annoyance.
Community contaminant prevention - airborne releases	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To prevent contaminant releases to air from products of combustion.
Clean construction	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To minimize the health and climate impacts to local communities from diesel engine emissions associated with construction activities.
Material ingredients product manufacturer supply chain optimization	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To encourage the use of products and materials for which life-cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts. To reward project teams for selecting products for which the chemical ingredients in the product are inventoried using an accepted methodology and for selecting products verified to minimize the use and generation of harmful substances. To reward raw material manufacturers who produce products verified to have improved life-cycle impacts.
Green training for contractors, trades, operators and service workers	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To support and encourage the knowledge and understanding of green construction practices by those implementing design in the field. In this way the benefits and goals of green building, currently often unknowable by just reading construction documents, will be clearer to the construction team, and more easily, and completely, implemented throughout the construction of the project.
Local food production	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To improve human health and well-being and increase community involvement in, and education about, food production.
Site development - protect or restore habitat - alternative compliance path	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to provide habitat and promote biodiversity.
Verified Construction & Demolition Recycling Rates	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To achieve higher quality of construction and demolition waste diversion by encouraging a verification standard for recycling facilities that will accurately quantify waste data.
LEED O+M Starter Kit	Pilot credits	Credit | Up to 4 points	Pilot Credit 88: LEED O+M Starter Kit is a collection of Pilot Credits that BD+C projects can use in the Innovation in Design credit category for early pre‐approval of O+M prerequisites, streamlining the path into certification in LEED v4 for Operations + Maintenance. Site Management Policy Systems O+M Plan Purchasing, Waste and Renovation Policies Green Cleaning Policy and IPM Plan
Social equity within the community	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Encourage any and all members of the project team to promote and further social equity by integrating strategies that address identified social and community needs and disparities among those affected by the project by:
Social equity within the project team	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Encourage any and all members of the project team to promote and further social equity by integrating strategies that address identified social and economic needs and disparities among those working on the project by:
Social equity within the supply chain	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Encourage any and all members of the project team to promote and further social equity by integrating strategies that address identified social and community issues, needs and disparities among those affected by the project by:
EA Pilot ACP: Advanced Buildings™ New Construction Guide	Pilot credits	Credit | Up to 10 points	To give design teams who are using Option 3 to meet the Energy and Atmosphere Prerequisite the option to use New Buildings Institute’s updated prescriptive guide, The Advanced Buildings New Construction Guide, to meet this requirement. This Guide has replaced the Core Performance guide which is currently referenced in this section of LEED v4.
Prevention through Design	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To support high-performance cost-effective employee safety and health outcomes across the building life-cycle through early attention to safety and health hazards.
No Cooling Tower - alternative compliance path	Pilot credits	Credit | 2 points	To increase water efficiency, eliminating the need for a cooling tower.
Alternative Energy Performance Metric ACP	Pilot credits	Credit | Up to 21 points	The intent of this pilot alternative compliance path is to allow an alternate metric for documenting performance improvement when using Option 1. Whole Building Simulation as the compliance path in EA Prerequisite Minimum Energy Performance , EA Credit Optimize Energy Performance , and EA Credit Renewable Energy Production . The ACP does not change any other aspect of the referenced prerequisites and credits.
EQ Pilot ACP: ETS Control for Projects in Japan	Pilot credits	Credit | 0 point	To prevent or minimize exposure of non-smokers, indoor surfaces and ventilation distribution systems to environmental tobacco smoke.
Assessment and Planning for Resilience	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To encourage designers, planners and building owners/operators to proactively plan before design commences for the potential impacts of natural disasters or disturbances as well as address issues that impact long-term building performance such as changing climate conditions.
Design for Enhanced Resilience	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	Design and construct buildings that can resist, with minimal damage, reasonably expected * natural disasters and weather events (i.e. flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes/high winds, earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, and wildfires).
Passive Survivability and Functionality During Emergencies	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To ensure that buildings will maintain reasonable functionality, including access to potable water , in the event of an extended power outage or loss of heating fuel.
Green Advantage certification	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	USGBC has assessed the Green Advantage certification program against our established requirements for recognition in LEED and found Green Advantage to be in compliance. As such, LEED project teams who comply with the following requirements are eligible for award of 1 Innovation point for LEED v4 BD&C projects:
Innovation: Green Building Education	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To provide public education focusing on green building strategies and solutions.
Innovation: Purchasing - lamps	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To establish and maintain a toxic material source reduction program to reduce the amount of mercury brought onto the building site through purchases of lamps.
Innovation: Purchasing - lamps	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To establish and maintain a toxic material source reduction program to reduce the amount of mercury brought onto the building site through purchases of lamps.
Innovation: PBT source reduction - lead, cadmium and copper	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To reduce the release of Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBTs) chemicals associated with the life cycle of building materials.
Innovation: Design for flexibility	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	Conserve resources associated with the construction and management of buildings by designing for flexibility and ease of future adaptation and for the service life of components and assemblies.
Innovation: Sustainable wastewater management	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To increase the efficiency of wastewater reuse by encouraging water reuse, reduction or recovery.
Innovation: Community outreach and involvement	Innovation catalog	Credit | 1 point	To encourage responsiveness to community needs by involving the people who live or work in the community in project design and planning and in decisions about how it should be improved or how it should change over time.
Sustainable wastewater management	Pilot credits	Credit | 1 point	To increase the efficiency of wastewater reuse by encouraging water reuse, reduction or recovery.

source: http://www.usgbc.org/credits