LEED Cert Guarantee
LEED Certification, or Your Money Back
Source: costar.com
The Pledge by Consulting Firm Energy Ace, a First in the Industry, is Backed by a Refund
"Earning LEED certification can be a fickle process, subject to complex credit interpretations and appeals, heavy documentation, budgetary considerations and ultimately, a ruling from the U.S. Green Building Council's sister organization, the Green Building Certification Institute. For those reasons, LEED consultants -- even ones that have worked on hundreds of projects -- have made a point not to promise certification to their clients.
That is, until now. Energy Ace Inc., an Atlanta-based energy services and LEED consulting firm headed by Wayne Robertson, is offering what it calls the industry's first LEED certification guarantee."
I found this article to be rather interesting. Much of what I have learned about the LEED process is that it is time consuming, cumbersome and expensive, not to say the least that in some cases it can be arbitrary and/or unpredictable. The company that is guaranteeing their fees must be quite confident in their management of projects. I look forward to follow up stories in the next two years on this firm.
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