LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) Training in Denver, Chicago & Minneapolis

LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) Training in Denver, Chicago & Minneapolis

Criterion Planners


The Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council are offering LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) training workshops for land-use, urban design, transportation, and environmental practitioners at the following locations:

- September 16, Denver, Implementing LEED-ND (ND 301), full-day, EPA Building, http://usgbccolorado.org/documents/9.16_ND_301_Denver_Flier.pdf.

- September 19, Chicago, Understanding LEED-ND (ND 251), full-day, Merchandise Mart Conference Center, http://www.usgbc-illinois.org/?page_id=4315

- November 16, Minneapolis, Introduction to LEED-ND, half-day, Central Library, http://www.usgbcmn.org/event-detail/?id=434

Participants at the workshops will earn continuing education credits with major professional organizations. The workshops will be taught by Eliot Allen, AICP, LEED AP-ND, CNU-A, a principal at Criterion Planners of Portland Oregon. Eliot was an orginal LEED-ND core committee member, and has served as the USGBC's technical consultant for LEED-ND since 2007, including coauthoring the Reference Guide and supervising over 170 certification reviews and 100 credit interpretation rulings. In addition to LEED Faculty, Eliot is a member of USGBC's Location & Planning Technical Advisory Group, a core committee member of the Sustainable SITES Initiative, and co-chair of the 2012 ACEEE panel on net-zero energy communities.

Posted September 6, 2011



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