Essential Ecosystems: LEED v4.1 Protect or Restore Habitat Credit
Elixir Environmental works with building product manufacturers to develop transparency documentation for material ingredient reporting, including Health Product Declarations (HPD). HPDs help contribute points under LEED v4. Product declarations offer your customers an unsurpassed level of transparency, can validate claims of your product's contents, and increase the chances of your building product getting specified.
Protecting wildlife and preserving it for future generations is critical. Our planet desperately needs to be safeguarded, with climate change already wreaking havoc on our natural environment. In this course, we describe how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Protect or Restore Habitat credit and reduce environmental impacts for building sites. We explore how design professionals can preserve high-quality native ecosystems, including their soils, native vegetation, sensitive species habitat, wildlife corridors, and hydrology.
- Describe how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Protect or Restore Habitat credit and reduce environmental impacts for building sites
- Discuss how project teams can use soil restoration strategies to help achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Protect or Restore Habitat credit
- Explain how project teams use the EPA Level III Ecoregion database and Xerces Pollinator-Friendly Plant List to help achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Protect or Restore Habitat credit
- Review how design professionals can preserve high-quality native ecosystems, including their soils, native vegetation, sensitive species habitat, wildlife corridors, and hydrology
