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  LEED CERTIFICATION: WHAT IS IT & IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT? What Is LEED Certification? LLED certification is a Worldwide used process that evaluates a building project’s sustainability efforts. Using detailed rating & points-systems, LEED-certification gauges sustainable building-design for new construction, existing-buildings, commercial-interiors, single family homes and other. What Are The LEED Building Certification Requirements? For a building to get LEED certification, it must meet certain require during construction. Depending on the kind of project, LEED Certification uses various rating systems. If you’re curious about what building rating system fits your situation, use the Discover LEED Certool. Here are some of the major components of getting LEED certification: ·        Improving water efficiency ·        Using sustainable building materials ·        Usin...

The Pearl Rating system (PRS) acknowledges that with every stage of the project of the project design-construction and finally facilities - there are different responsibilities-associated with it and hence have to be rated accordingly. Keeping this reality in check, 3-rating stages have been put in place - 1.      Design 2.      Construction 3.      Operational. A key point to be noted here is that Estidama Certification assure that the performance of a building or facility, post completion & handover, is behaving as it was designed to. LEED, on the other-hand, does not account for this. Think of it like a student learning for an exam, only for a passing marks. AKA mugging up facts. There’s no real cost(Value) in the grade besides a piece of paper /document that confirms you have passed in Exam. With the Estidama certification, organization cannot get away with it on the sly. Simply having products/item specified...