by VCA-Admin001a | Aug 27, 2020 | Community
If you have never dealt with a CALGreen Tier project but have pursued a green building certification, you may find similarities which, upon completion, may lead you to ask: “Where’s my plaque?!” Since 2007/2008 when the California Green Building Standards (later...
by VCA-Admin001a | Apr 16, 2020 | Community
The building industry is shifting away from traditional methods of construction and towards resiliency by designing for net zero, which ultimately results in lowered operation costs and reductions in a building’s environmental footprint. In 2018, the United States...
by VCA-Admin001a | Feb 28, 2020 | Community
VCA Green sponsored and attended USGBC Town Hall Executive Town Hall meeting in Los Angeles. USGBC CEO, Mahesh Ramanujan, discusses the future of green buildings. The main message is better buildings = better lives. LEED will be focusing on resiliency and health...
by VCA-Admin001a | Jan 2, 2020 | Community
On November 20, 2019, an upcoming evolution of LEED was announced at the Greenbuild International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. LEED Positive was unveiled by The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) with the vision to implement regenerative strategies into LEED’s...
by VCA-Admin001a | Aug 1, 2019 | Community
In 2019, USGBC released LEED v4.1, the newest version of the LEED green building program. LEED v4.1 takes into account challenges encountered with v4 and provides solutions through updates to performance thresholds and reference standards. If a project team is...
