LEED Lab is a multidisciplinary immersion course that utilizes the built environment to educate and prepare students to become green building leaders and sustainability-focused citizens.

This site provides higher education faculty curated access to resources and processes, organized to aid in teaching about and engaging students in the concepts of sustainability, green building and LEED with a focus on facilitating a LEED Lab course.

Available materials for LEED Lab course faculty:

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LEED Lab Action Plan Template (to make the case how a LEED Lab contributes to the institution’s sustainability commitment)
Curriculum Toolkit (setting up a LEED Lab course; suggested course activities and deliverables; teaching resources, etc.)
LEED presentation slides
LEED Lab overview
LEED Lab Path Illustration
Campus Implementation Workshop - designed to assist higher education campus teams with creating a green existing buildings program, implementing the LEED for Building Operations & Maintenance rating system at the campus and building level, and establishing a culture of performance. In particular, Stage 3: Building Feasibility Study can be used to help select appropriate buildings for a LEED Lab.
LEED Lab Timing Chart (template for tracking a LEED v4 O+M project) - breaks down the activities associated with each credit and prerequisite into the establishment and performance categories. Establishment activities should typically be completed first, as they are less subject to change and will set up the project for success as students begin the ongoing tracking activities. Note that audits and other one-time events (such as the Alternative Transportation Survey) must fall within the performance period for the LEED Lab project building.

Check out how other schools have used LEED Lab: - University of California, Merced - University of California Santa Barbara - University of Florida

Additional free resources to teach about LEED, sustainability, and green building are available in the Higher Education Curricular Toolkits.

LEED Lab Curriculum Toolkit

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