LEED has pilot credits available for resilience-related planning and design, reports NRMCA Senior Vice President, Structures and Codes, Scott Campbell. The basis for the credits is planning for resilience, design for enhanced resilience and passive survivability. Concrete can be an important part of meeting all three credits, enhancing the desirability of designing with concrete when attempting to achieve LEED certification. In the first of a two-part series, an overview of each of the credits, and their meaning in terms of achieving resilience, are discussed in an article by Dr. Campbell in Engineered Systems magazine.
Part 2 of the series, detailing the design credit requirements, will appear in the April issue. The column is part of an ongoing series where Dr. Campbell lays out various aspects of security and resilience for a technical, but not specialist, audience and advances the concept of resilience as envisioned by NRMCA.
Build With Strength is a coalition led by NRMCA that promotes concrete building systems through communications, project promotion, education and advocacy. To learn more, contact Scott Campbell at scampbell@nrmca.org or 502-552-5034.
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