Starting this summer, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the Building Performance Partnership (BPP) program to all current whole-building LEED-certified commercial and residential projects. The BPP is a program designed to engage owners and managers of commercial and residential LEED-certified green buildings, optimize the performance of buildings through data collection, analysis and action. BPP plans to further efforts to understand how buildings perform from the time of LEED certification and years beyond.

This partnership among USGBC and thousands of LEED project owners is projected to result in the population of a comprehensive green building performance database, as well as enable standardization of reporting metrics and analytics for establishing new building performance benchmarks. Current participating LEED-certified buildings cooperate on a strictly voluntary basis. More than 120 projects are participating in Phase One, which is focused on energy and water. A basic information report will be available in time for Greenbuild 2010 in Chicago this November.

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