Building Vitality: Equitable Development in LEED v4.1
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.
Many low-income communities have sites that are vacant or underutilized because of perceived stigmas or economic barriers. Building a project on a high-priority redevelopment site can revitalize the neighborhood and bring social and economic benefits to the surrounding community. In this course we explain how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C High-Priority Site and Equitable Development credit. Our team discusses how the redevelopment of contaminated sites can improve environmental health. Finally, we review strategies that promote the social and economic revitalization of economically depressed or disadvantaged communities.
- Explain how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C High-Priority Site and Equitable Development credit and promote the needs and goals of existing residents and businesses.
- Describe how the LEED v4.1 BD+C High-Priority Site and Equitable Development credit can promote the social and economic revitalization of economically depressed or disadvantaged communities.
- Discuss how the LEED v4.1 BD+C High-Priority Site and Equitable Development credit can help with the redevelopment of contaminated sites and improve environmental health
- Review how the EPA’s EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool can help design professionals contribute to an equitable development project
