What Others Say About LEEDuser: Quotes from Media, Blogs, and Customers

What Our Customers and Friends Say About LEEDuser

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"It's the best investment I make for my LEED projects." – David L. Sheridan, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C – Aqua Cura

"just wanted to let you know that this site has been a lifesaver.  The guest experts respond to questions right away and all  the pages are informative and to the point. All of the sample forms and templates are accurate and pinpoint exactly what information needs to be accumulated." - Lisa Starr, LEED AP - DLA

"LEEDuser has the highest concentration of professionals exchanging info and advice on LEED documentation anywhere on the Web. LEEDuser explains what the LEED Referece Guide doesn’t, getting into the nuts and bolts of how to put a LEED project together."
– Bill Swanson, P.E., LEED AP – BETA Design

"I've been using some of your free info over the past few days to assist in feasibility studies for two LEED-EBOMEBOM is an acronym for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance, one of the LEED 2009 rating sytems. hotels. It's so useful, I couldn't help but join. Thanks for the help."
– Christopher Maddern, LEED AP – Energy Solutions International

"You guys provide a great resource and always have very useful information and guidance."
– Brian G. Pieplow, AICP, LEED AP BD+C – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District, LEED Program Support Team

"As an integrated designBuilding or interior design in which different components, such as the building envelope, window placement and glazings, mechanical systems, furniture, and surface finishes are considered as part of building design, especially to achieve goals related to sustainability. tool, the LEED rating systems are enhanced by information transparency. LEEDuser provides a much-needed dose of transparency with information and interpretations from experienced LEED users."
– David Posada, LEED AP – GBD ARCHITECTS Incorporated

"I have been involved with over 100+ LEED projects of different types and sizes, and LEEDuser is on the top of my reference list to my project team members. It is also a tool that every student must be introduced to supplement their knowledge and learning of LEED."
– Bahar Armaghani, LEED AP BD+C, LEED Faculty – University of Florida

"LEEDuser takes a clear, comprehensive approach to LEED—it's simple to understand and follow and is open and engaging regardless of level of ability or knowledge."
– Mara Baum, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, EDAC – Anshen + Allen

"LEEDuser is a great communication tool—it allows both experts and also people that are new to LEED to exchange knowledge and tricks. It's very LEED-focused while also opening the door to broader sustainability issues."
– Martine Dion, AIA, LEED AP – Symmes Maini & McKee Associates, Inc.

"Finding LEEDuser has been extremely helpful to our team. The toolkits and discussion boards turned out to be especially invaluable—it has become our go-to LEED reference."
– Elizabeth Warlop, RA, LEED AP – EFW Construction

"LEEDuser should be a resource in every LEED AP's arsenal."
– Larry Sims, a.k.a. "rookwood" on the ARE forum – Studio4

"The LEEDuser website has been immensely helpful to me over the course of three LEED projects I’ve administered."
– Mary Kay, LEED AP BD+C – Gray Construction

"Thanks for providing another great product to make our lives easier."
– Erica Godun, AIA, LEED AP – FXFOWLE

What Media, Websites, and Blogs Are Saying About LEEDuser

Here are some reviews of LEEDuser we've seen recently. Written about us and want to let us know? Are you with the media or a blog and want to access LEEDuser for a review? Let us know via our contact form.

"Father of LEED" Rob Watson Calls LEEDuser "Goldmine of Professional Insights"

"Another winner in the tools category is the online LEEDuser.com website. It is easy to use and full of practical advice on how to document LEED projects. There is a real goldmine of professional insights in the LEEDuser Forums. In just a few minutes on the site I found answers to questions I had been banging my head on for weeks."
– Rob Watson, Executive Editor – GreenerBuildings.com

"A tremendous asset for understanding green building strategies"

"We use LEEDuser.com in our green building courses at the University of Florida and find it to be a tremendous asset for understanding green building strategies and the various LEED products. LEEDuser.com is a product of BuildingGreen.com who are certainly the most authoritative and independent group covering trends in green building."
– Charles Kibert, Professor & Director, Powell Center for Construction & Environment, University of Florida, writing in the GreenBuildingFocus eJournal

"Lost Over LEED?: BuildingGreen Launches Software to Help LEED Certification"

"...Simple to use and easy to navigate. For each credit discussed, there’s a listing of potential pitfalls and points to consider before pursuing the credit further. There are online calculators attached to many of the credits, a listing of further resources, and examples to draw from."
– Justin Moresco, earth2tech.com

"LEED Sites Worth Visiting"

"...Developed by the fine folks over at BuildingGreen. The basic goal is to move beyond the Reference Guide to provide support for LEED AP's, including sample documents and templates. If they did nothing other than provide those templates it would be worthwhile, though the site aims to go much further by using seasoned professionals to provide practical explanations of how to actual go about finishing the credits. If you've been a long time reader of this site you might remember that I think these guys are top-notch, and what I've seen on the site so far gives me no reason to expect anything less from LEEDuser."
– Joel McKellar, RealLIfeLEED blog

A Continually Updated LEED Reference Guide

"Essentially a continually updated LEED Reference Guide...."
– Adam Bernholz – Green Wizard and Joel McKellar – RealLifeLEED, SustainSC 2010 conference presentation

"LEED Study Buddy"

"With a goal of demystifying LEED, the new tool provides diagrams, checklists and credit language guides."
 – otto architecture + design blog

"Helps Even Seasoned Professionals"

"The site is very user-friendly and easy to navigate and includes information about the new Regional Credits, green building strategies such as Daylighting, Green Roofs and Porous Paving in addition to very in-depth information, tips from the experts and resources. It also acts as a very useful portal to finding the peripheral information necessary for navigating a LEED certification project such as ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007, for example. In addition to the nationally applicable information, there seems to be quite a bit of regionally specific information based on real world experience stemming from the collaboration with YRG and the other experts and the municipalities and jurisdictions that they are familiar with."
– Elicia Ratajczyk, EVstudio

"LEEDuser.com provides credit-by-credit guidance"

"If navigating the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification process has left you feeling at sea, BuildingGreen has come to the rescue. The publisher has created LEEDuser.com, a new website that provides credit-by-credit guidance for anyone in the midst of the exhaustive process.

"The new site, created with the support of the USGBC, includes descriptions of credit requirements, tips to streamline submissions, online calculators, and user forums for specific credits. LEEDuser operates through the prism of the five LEED rating systems: New Construction, Core & Shell, Schools, Commercial Interiors, and Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance. It provides diagrams illustrating key aspects of each prerequisite and credit, a checklist of tips, and samples of completed LEED submissions."
– Nicholas Tamarin, Interior Design