LEED v5 Carbon Assessment
GreenCE’s mission is to support the necessary transition to a sustainable built environment by empowering design professionals to address the environmental, economic, and social impacts of buildings. GreenCE’s course catalog includes LEED exam preparation, continuing education to maintain your AIA or LEED credential, as well as specialty education focused on topics such as ADA/Barrier-Free requirements. We are committed to designing the highest quality continuing education programs in the construction industry.
LEED v5 puts carbon at the front of the design process. Before a project can pursue a single credit, it must complete a Carbon Assessment—and that assessment can fundamentally change design decisions. This course breaks down the Carbon Assessment prerequisite, the requirements that feed it, and how to use the results to identify the biggest opportunities for carbon reduction. Learn where carbon reductions have the greatest impact, how to bring carbon into early design conversations, and how to turn data into decisions that matter to owners, designers, and project teams.
- Describe the intent of the LEED v5 BD+C Carbon Assessment prerequisite and explain why a whole-project carbon baseline is now foundational to responsible design practice.
- Identify the requirements of the LEED v5 BD+C Carbon Assessment prerequisite, including the four contributing prerequisites and credits that supply its data and the owner attestation it requires.
- Explain the need for the LEED v5 BD+C Carbon Assessment prerequisite by connecting current global, national, and California carbon data to project-level decision making.
- Apply findings from the LEED v5 BD+C Carbon Assessment prerequisite during early design to influence operational, embodied, refrigerant, and transportation carbon outcomes.
