U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a nonprofit organization composed of leaders working to advance buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Driving its mission to transform the built environment is USGBC’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™, which is accessible online and supported by a robust LEED education workshop program and the LEED Professional Accreditation program, administered through the Green Building Certification Institute.

USGBC supports a rich education and research agenda, including Greenbuild, the cutting-edge international conference and expo focused on green building. USGBC also supports an aggressive education and advocacy program delivered at the local level through more than 75 chapters across the United States.

Since its founding in 1993, USGBC has been focused on fulfilling the building and construction industry’s vision for its own transformation to high-performance green building. Today, it includes more than 15,000 member organizations. As a testament to its leadership, in the past five years alone, USGBC’s membership has grown by more than 500%, and to date more than 3 billion square feet of building space are involved with the LEED program.

Industry-led and consensus-driven, USGBC is as diverse as the marketplace it serves. Its membership includes architects, engineers, contractors, real-estate professionals, government agencies and more. Leaders from within each of these sectors participate in the development of the LEED Rating Systems and the direction of the Council through volunteer service on USGBC’s open committees.

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