What Are LEED Ratings?
Having a safe and healthy place to live and work is a fundamental human right. Green building ensures that indoor environments are kept safe for people. It does not just focus on construction and operational efficiency and the materials that are used for construction, but it revolves around human beings and how their lives can be made better. Keeping the essence of green building in mind, environmental advocacy groups and many individuals with environment-friendly mindsets started looking for ways to ensure energy-efficient construction of homes and buildings. There was a sporadic rise in demand for sustainable buildings in the early 1990's and this made real estate stakeholders such as developers and architects reassess their construction methods . It was their joint efforts that finally led to the launch of the LEED Ratings in 2000 . The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Ratings were devised by the United States G