The U.S. Green Building Council recently unveiled the LEED Dynamic Plaque, which is a new system designed for benchmarking and comparing post-occupancy building performance on a global scale. USGBC is planning to award 25 LEED Dynamic Plaques in the U.S. by the first quarter of 2014 and many more by year’s end.
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