Kellems home: a LEED for Homes project
LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design LEED is a green building certification program created by the United States Green Building Council that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. To receive LEED certification, a building project must satisfy prerequisites and earn points in eight separate categories to achieve different levels of certification. Chris and Dave Kellems sought to undertake this voluntary program with the help of Virge Temme Architecture for the creation of their new home in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The Kellems home...
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LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system developed by the U.S Green Building Council that is used as a tool to create environmentally responsible buildings and neighborhoods . It is a comprehensive set of guidelines encompassing every facet of a building’s development from site selection through post-occupancy care and management. “Ithaca” is a home designed and built in northern Wisconsin, which is expected to be certified at the highest possible level of LEED rating. This is history of how a LEED-for-Home project was...
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