LEED v5 Materials and Resources
GreenCE’s mission is to support the necessary transition to a sustainable built environment by empowering design professionals to address the environmental, economic, and social impacts of buildings. GreenCE’s course catalog includes LEED exam preparation, continuing education to maintain your AIA or LEED credential, as well as specialty education focused on topics such as ADA/Barrier-Free requirements. We are committed to designing the highest quality continuing education programs in the construction industry.
What if the biggest carbon problem in your next building project has nothing to do with energy bills? The construction industry has spent decades obsessing over operational efficiency — better HVAC, tighter envelopes, smarter controls. But a quiet revolution is underway, and it starts before a single occupant flips a light switch. LEED v5 has fundamentally rewritten the rules on building materials, and the stakes couldn't be higher: the stuff we build with — concrete, steel, glass, flooring, furniture — is responsible for significant amounts of global greenhouse gas emissions. In this course, we'll unpack Materials and Resources credits in the LEED v5 BD+C and ID+C framework: why they exist, what history of environmental damage and health harm they're designed to fix, and what project teams actually have to do to achieve them. Whether you're chasing credits or just trying to understand where the industry is headed, this is the course that connects the dots.
- Discuss the intent and requirements of the Materials and Resources prerequisites and credits within the LEED v5 BD+C and ID+C rating systems.
- Explain how the LEED v5 BD+C and ID+C Materials and Resources credits address embodied carbon across the building lifecycle.
- Describe how compliant transparency documentation such as EPDs and HPDs can contribute to LEED v5 BD+C and ID+C Materials and Resources credit achievement and drive market transformation toward more sustainable building products.
- Summarize the historical context and environmental data behind the construction industry's material impacts, including embodied carbon, construction waste, and indoor air quality.
