YUDELSON ELECTED TO NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING COMMITTEE
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October 16, 2006 Jerry Yudelson, 520-207-9759
YUDELSON ELECTED TO NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING COMMITTEE
TUCSON, Arizona - October 16 - Yudelson Associates, a leading green building consulting firm, announced today that its founder and principal, Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED AP, has been elected to the national “core committee” for the LEED for New Construction rating system, an arm of the U.S. Green Building Council. This committee is charged with developing new versions of the nationally recognized LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building assessment system and overseeing the operations of current versions.
Yudelson is a former Board Member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a national nonprofit with more than 6,300 corporate and institutional members. He also serves on the national core committee for a companion standard, LEED for Core and Shell development, and is the only person in the country elected to serve on both bodies. He has trained nearly 3,000 people in the LEED standard since 2001, when he was selected as one of the ten original LEED national faculty members.
“LEED for New Construction is the de facto national commercial green building standard,” said Yudelson. “It is incredibly important in transitioning the built environment to one that is more energy and resource-efficient and healthier. The LEED standard has been used in nearly 5,000 building projects since 2001. Continuing to evolve this standard to incorporate new approaches to building design and technology is the work of the core committee, and I’m pleased to be part of it.”
Yudelson Associates, Tucson, AZ, www.greenbuildconsult.com, is a newly formed company dedicated to “growing the business of green building” and facilitating sustainability initiatives. The founder, Jerry Yudelson, is a leading national authority on green buildings and corporate sustainability, with three books on green marketing and more than three dozen articles to his credit in the past three years. He is the senior editor of the web site, www.igreenbuild.com, and on the editorial board of two major national trade and professional magazines. Yudelson was honored in 2004 as “Green Building Advocate of the Year” by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, an electric utility consortium based in Portland, Oregon.
