LEED / Green Construction

Sustainable Building and Leed Certification

What is Sustainable or Green Building?

Green building is a style of design and construction that focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource use — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal.

Green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:

• Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources
• Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity
• Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation

What are the benefits of sustainable building?
Effective green building can lead to:

1. reduced operating costs by increasing productivity and using less energy and water,
2. improved public and occupant health due to improved indoor air quality, and
3. reduced environmental impacts by, for example, lessening storm water runoff and the heat island effect.

Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment, although the appearance and style of sustainable buildingsis not necessarily distinguishable from their less sustainable counterparts.

LEED Certification

Anderson-Moore Construction Corporation recognizes the growing demand for sustainable design and building practices, and is committed to providing such construction services to clients pursuing a green or LEED-rated building.AMC is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the local South Florida U.S.G.B.C. chapter. Additionally, Judith Schumacher, Vice President of AMC, is the Chairman of the Programs Committee for the USGBC South Florida Chapter and a member of the Board of Governors. AMC also assists employees in obtaining their USGBC Certification and becoming LEED Accredited Professionals. Only LEED certified professionals can provide the necessary expertise to help identify green initiatives, procure green building materials, and assist clients through the LEED process to secure LEED credits.

As a leader in the industry, Anderson-Moore Construction Corp. is one of the first regional General Contractors to employ as many as six (6) LEED AP’s, and continues to assist additional employees in the certification process.