LEEDv5 Overview: What an Architect Needs to Know

Description:

This course provides architects with a concise, practice-focused overview of the major updates in LEED v5, including expanded early-phase sustainability requirements, consolidated credits, and new mandatory assessments for climate resilience, human impact, and carbon. Participants will learn how LEED v5 aligns with updated energy codes, introduces enhanced performance expectations, and shifts design decision-making earlier in the project timeline. Attendees gain practical guidance for integrating LEED v5 requirements into workflows, coordinating with owners and consultants, and preparing projects for higher performance across energy, materials, resilience, and occupant well-being.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the major system-wide changes introduced in LEED v5 and how they shift design decision-making earlier in the project timeline.

Evaluate new mandatory assessments—Climate Resilience, Human Impact, and Carbon—and describe how each informs site, envelope, energy performance, materials, and community-responsive design.

Identify key updates to LEED v4/v4.1 credit categories and describe strategies for achieving compliance with new requirements related to energy, embodied carbon, waste, materials, and occupant well-being.

Apply LEED v5 performance expectations to project workflows by integrating requirements early, coordinating across disciplines, and advising owners on implications for cost, schedule, and sustainability outcomes.

Certification:

1 LU | HSW

Schedule Learning:

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