First Friday Webinars – Inclusive Pathways to Health in LEED v5: Harnessing Biophilic and Universal Design

USGBC will once again offer First Friday Webinars in 2024. These are previously recorded, highly rated, LEED specific education programs. Gather with peers and colleagues at noon Central Time on first Friday of each month to earn those CEs!

These courses are available for anyone to attend, but are free to local or company USGBC members. That includes Missouri Gateway Green Building Council members!

Access the webinar registration and code here. You will be prompted to login to access the code. Once you enter your login details, it will take you to your Member Dashboard. From there, click Member Only Benefits from the left-hand side menu to view the list of benefits and access code for the First Friday Webinars. You can use the code to register for one or more of the first Friday webinars. Questions? Reach out to your MO Gateway Green Building Council staff at info@mogreenbuildings.org.

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Inclusive Pathways to Health in LEED v5: Harnessing Biophilic and Universal Design

What is new in LEED v5? And how will this impact human health and wellbeing? It’s critical to note that LEED v5 recognizes that climate change will be the largest threat to human health. As such, LEED v5, particularly the indoor environmental quality category, supports adaptation for current and future climate through the use of future weather files and the careful identification of vulnerable populations. LEED v5 prioritizes air quality transparency along with improved air quality monitoring strategies for both indoor and outdoor air. Once LEED projects consider and adapt to pressing physiological health threats, they can also prioritize designing for mental health and wellness. By incorporating more universal and inclusive design principles, LEED will empower projects to design for physically and mentally diverse populations. This not only means improving access to spaces and amenities throughout the building, but also approaching existing strategies, like acoustic design, thermal comfort, and lighting through a new lens.

LEED v5 is deeply focused on identifying and alleviating the actual, most critical threats to occupant physical health. That said, the next version of LEED considers mental health and wellness more in-depth than ever before. Through new strategies, like biophilic and universal design, and improvements to existing strategies, like daylight, quality views and thermal comfort, mental health and wellbeing will be at the forefront of LEED going forward and this session will demonstrate how.

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• February: Overview of LEED v5: Taking action on climate, quality of life, and ecology
• March: LEED v5: Swift Climate Action, Enriched Quality of Life, and Advanced Land Use and Biodiversity
• April: Navigating Smart Building Certifications for Sustainable Futures
• May: LEED and Upfront Carbon Emissions: A Comprehensive Look at A1-A5 Embodied Carbon in Building Construction
• June: LEED EBOM Plays Nice with WELL Health-Safety at the Children’s Museum of Cleveland
• July: Smart Building Charrette, circa 2030: Realizing the Promise of High-Performance Green Buildings
• August: Exceeding ESG Commitments with LEED for Communities
• September: Looking to the Future: Utilizing LEED as a Tool for Adaptive Reuse Projects
• October: LEED Zero Project Profiles
• November: Implementing the Future of LEED with LEED v5 Operations + Maintenance
• December: Beneficial Electrification in Northern Climates
• January 2025: Inclusive Pathways to Health in LEED v5: Harnessing Biophilic and Universal Design