Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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worked very closely with U.S. Green Building Council
and we were some of the first members in the 1990s
and have always been aware of and supportive and, in
fact, used the lead method of rating our buildings.
But we ran into some real difficulties in getting
that whole methodology in alignment with our
aggressive building program.
We have happily reported this morning that
Sofia had received a lead certification. That
certification came two years after the building was
completed. So if the lead process takes twice as
long as it takes to build the building, there is a
disconnect there.
And there are some other issues, some
procedural alignments that were a challenge to us.
There were some costs that were involved. It did
not align very easily with the design build delivery
and the lead certification was single building
focused, while we are campus focused. And we
continue to work with USGBC on those elements.
In the early years, we were an
organization, an agency that were self-certifying.
And there are other agencies that we're doing that
for all the reasons that I mentioned. And we're
happy that we know can become a little more
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