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Green Building Information Gateway: Advancing Green Building Practice with GIS

—Chris Pyke, US Green Building Council

Green building is a global movement dedicated to transforming built environments. The US Green Building Council advances green building through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) rating systems. Over the last decade, LEED has evolved to include neighborhoods, homes, new construction, commercial interiors, and existing buildings. LEED certified buildings are now a dynamic global geographic phenomenon found across the United States and in over 100 countries. It has become critical to understand the spatial and temporal dimensions of green building practice, the prevalence and frequency of individual green building strategies and the factors underlying project performance. The Green Building Information Gateway is a novel map-centric technology, including an ArcServer-based web portal and an iOS mobile application. These tools provide an unprecedented view of the green building landscape, reveal trends and patterns in green building adoption and enable a next generation of evidence-based analysis.