Week of January 23

Phillip Thompson

Source #2 "LEED Credit Library." U.S. Green Building Council. U.S. Green Building Council, 2017.       Web. 28 Jan. 2017.  MLA

Annotation:  This source gives me vital information regarding what specific areas and specific topics are required to achieve a LEED Green Building Certification. The site contains all the different building designs and requirements that any building can have to earn points toward a Green Building Status. This website taught me that every category doesn’t have to be met, but the more categories a building contains the higher the certification level. Certified is the lowest, then Silver, then Gold, and the best is Platinum.

Potential Quotes: “To avoid the development of environmentally sensitive lands and reduce the environmental impact from the location of a building on a site.” This quote gives a specific example of an example of a possible point that can be earned on the path to earning a LEED Certification.

Assessment: This source is credible because it is the exact place where businesses, who want to become certified, go to learn about all the different criteria that need to be met. Compared to other sites, who rephrase what how to become LEED certified, this site actually gives the businesses the knowledge to understand what it takes to become certified, eliminating the middle man.

Reflection: This site will be useful to understand what the Sawnee Mt. Preserve Visitors Center has done to work towards a certification, and what it can further do to increase the amount of points it earns to gain a higher level of certification.