USGBC Launches Real-Time International Green-Building Data Resource

The “market briefs” detail LEED projects by owner sector, rating system, and space type and provide data related to LEED-credentialed professionals and USGBC members.

Scott Arnold

July 16, 2014

Following the April launch of an online resource providing LEED green-building data in real time for each state and Washington, D.C., the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced an expansion of the resource to the more than 150 countries with LEED projects under way.

The international “market briefs” detail LEED projects by owner sector, rating system, and space type. Also, they provide information related to in-market LEED-credentialed professionals and USGBC members.

“These market briefs offer a global view, country by country, simultaneously representing the international demand for LEED and our commitment to making the story and the data behind it transparent,” Mahesh Ramanujam, chief operating officer, USGBC, said.

The international market briefs, accessible at www.usgbc.org/advocacy/country-market-brief, can be downloaded as either a visualization or a raw data file.

About the Author

Scott Arnold

Executive Editor

Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.