FSC®-Certified Wood In Green Building: LEED v5, v4.1, v4 plus Living Building Challenge, and FSC Project Certification
The Forest Stewardship Council is the world’s most trusted forest certification system, helping green building projects, consumers and companies identify and purchase products from responsibly managed forests.
Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certification has been a leading driver of global forest conservation since 1994, and the green building movement is a cornerstone of its success. The US Green Building Council’s LEED rating system and the designers, specifiers and builders who apply LEED standards play a critical role, as doing so rewards and promotes forest conservation. Other FSC market drivers, such as Living Building Challenge, and high volume purchasing by major retailers all work together to expand the marketplace and make finding FSC building products easier. Through this course, you will learn why FSC materials are a powerful conservation tool, how they integrate with broader green building standards, and how to identify, procure and properly document them to earn credit in green building programs.
- Explain why FSC-certified building products are key to green buildings that benefit building owners, building occupants and the environment, and why building professionals play an important role in promoting sustainable forest management in North America and beyond.
- Describe what to look for in a leading forest certification system when specifying certified wood products, including contribution toward LEED v5 BD+C, ID+C, MRc4, MRpc181 and Living Building Challenge certification of a project.
- Define the rules for how FSC-certified wood works in LEED green building rating systems, clarify the opportunities in LEED v4, LEED 4.1, and LEED v5 standards as they relate to FSC, Living Future’s Living Building Challenge, and FSC Project Certification.
- Identify the tools, strategies and resources that building professionals can use to encourage market transformation and sustainability in the forest products industry, including both environmental benefits as well as benefits to the built environment for end users.
