Select your credits
Review and select the LEED credits for your project in our interactive LEED scorecard. Explore credit definitions and get to know how many points you can earn on a LEED project.
Note: While the interactive scorecard provides an example of the points that could be awarded, different point totals can be achieved. This tool assumes the maximum number of points available will be awarded to develop the sample score
Location and Transportation (0/16)
Sensitive Land Protection
This credit is intended to cultivate community resilience, avoid the development of environmentally sensitive lands that provide critical ecosystem services and reduce the environmental impact from the location of a building on a site. Learn more about this credit.
High Priority Site and Equitable Development
This credit is intended to build the economic and social vitality of communities, encourage project location in areas with development constraints and promote the ecological, cultural, and community health of the surrounding area while understanding the needs and goals of existing residents and businesses. Learn more about this credit.
Surrounding Density and Diverse Uses
This credit is intended to conserve land and protect farmland and wildlife habitat by encouraging development in areas with existing infrastructure. It is also intended to support neighborhood and local economies, promote walkability, and low or no carbon transportation, and reduce vehicle distance traveled for all. Furthermore, it is intended to improve public health by encouraging daily physical activity. Learn more about this credit.
Access to Quality Transit
This credit is intended to encourage development in locations shown to have multimodal transportation choices or otherwise reduced motor vehicle use, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and other environmental and public health harms associated with motor vehicle use. Learn more about this credit.
Bicycle Facilities
This credit is intended to promote bicycling and transportation efficiency and reduce vehicle distance traveled. It is also intended to improve public health by encouraging utilitarian and recreational physical activity. Learn more about this credit.
Reduced Parking Footprint
This credit is intended to minimize the environmental harms associated with parking facilities, including automobile dependence, land consumption, and rainwater runoff. Learn more about this credit.
Electric Vehicles
This credit is intended to reduce pollution by promoting alternatives to conventionally fueled automobiles. Learn more about this credit.
Sustainable Sites (0/10)
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Construction Activity Pollution Prevention
This credit is intended to reduce pollution from construction activities by controlling soil erosion, waterway sedimentation, and airborne dust that disproportionately impact frontline communities. Learn more about this credit.
Site Assessment
This credit is intended to assess site conditions, environmental justice concerns, and cultural and social factors, before design to evaluate sustainable options and inform related decisions about site design. Learn more about this credit.
Protect or Restore Habitat
This credit is intended to conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to provide habitat and promote biodiversity. Learn more about this credit.
Open Space
This credit is intended to create exterior open space that encourages interaction with the environment, social interaction, passive recreation, and physical activities. Learn more about this credit.
Rainwater Management
This credit is intended to reduce runoff volume and improve water quality by replicating the natural hydrology and water balance of the site, based on historical conditions and undeveloped ecosystems in the region to avoid contributing to flooding downstream in frontline communities. Learn more about this credit.
Heat Island Reduction
This credit is intended to minimize inequitable effects on microclimates and human, especially frontline communities, and wildlife habitats by reducing heat islands. Learn more about this credit.
Light Pollution Reduction
This credit is intended to increase night sky access, improve nighttime visibility, and reduce the consequences of development for wildlife and people. Learn more about this credit.
Water Efficiency (0/11)
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Outdoor Water Use Reduction
This credit is intended to reduce outdoor potable water consumption and preserve no and low-cost potable water resources. Learn more about this credit.
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Indoor Water Use Reduction
This credit is intended to reduce indoor potable water consumption and preserve no and low cost potable water resources. Learn more about this credit.
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Building-Level Water Metering
This credit is intended to conserve low cost potable water resources and support water management and identify opportunities for additional water savings by tracking water consumption. Learn more about this credit.
Outdoor Water Use Reduction
This credit is intended to reduce outdoor potable water consumption and preserve no and low-cost potable water resources. Learn more about this credit.
Indoor Water Use Reduction
This credit is intended to reduce indoor potable water consumption and preserve no and low cost potable water resources. Learn more about this credit.
Optimize Process Water Use
This credit is intended to conserve low cost potable water resources used for mechanical processes while controlling corrosion and scale in the condenser water system. Learn more about this credit.
Water Metering
This credit is intended to conserve low cost potable water resources and support water management and identify opportunities for additional water savings by tracking water consumption. Learn more about this credit.
Energy and Atmosphere (0/33)
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Fundamental Commissioning and Verification
This credit is intended to support the design, construction, and eventual operation of a project that meets the owner’s project requirements for energy, water, indoor environmental quality, and durability. Learn more about this credit.
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Minimum Energy Performance
This credit is intended to promote resilience and reduce the environmental and economic harms of excessive energy use that disproportionately impact frontline communities by achieving a minimum level of energy efficiency for the building and its systems. Learn more about this credit.
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Building-Level Energy Metering
This credit is intended to support energy management and identify opportunities for additional energy savings by tracking building-level energy use. Learn more about this credit.
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Fundamental Refrigerant Management
This credit is intended to reduce ozone depletion and global warming potential and support early compliance with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol while minimizing direct contributions to climate change. Learn more about this credit.
Enhanced Commissioning
This credit is intended to further support the design, construction, and eventual operation of a project that meets the owner’s project requirements for energy, water, indoor environmental quality, and durability. Learn more about this credit.
Optimize Energy Performance
This credit is intended to achieve increasing levels of energy performance beyond the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental and economic harms associated with excessive energy use that disproportionately impact frontline communities. Learn more about this credit.
Advanced Energy Metering
This credit is intended to support energy management and identify opportunities for additional energy savings by tracking building-level and system-level energy use. Learn more about this credit.
Grid Harmonization
This credit is intended to increase participation in demand response technologies and programs that make energy generation and distribution systems more affordable and more efficient, increase grid reliability, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more about this credit.
Renewable Energy
This credit is intended to reduce the environmental and economic harms associated with fossil fuel energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the supply of renewable energy projects and foster a just transition to a green economy. Learn more about this credit.
Enhanced Refrigerant Management
This credit is intended to eliminate ozone depletion and global warming potential and support early compliance with the Montreal Protocol, including the Kigali Amendment, while minimizing direct contributions to climate change. Learn more about this credit.
Materials and Resources (0/13)
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Storage and Collection of Recyclables
This credit is intended to reduce the disproportionate burden of landfills and incinerators that is generated by building occupants’ waste hauled to and disposed of in landfills and incinerators through reduction, reuse and recycling service and education, and to conserve natural resources for future generations. Learn more about this credit.
Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction
This credit is intended to encourage adaptive reuse and optimize the environmental performance of products and materials. Learn more about this credit.
Environmental Product Declarations
This credit is intended to encourage the use of products and materials for which life-cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts. It is also intended to reward project teams for selecting products from manufacturers who have verified improved environmental life-cycle impacts. Learn more about this credit.
Sourcing of Raw Materials
This credit is intended to encourage the use of products and materials for which life cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life cycle impacts. It is also intended to reward project teams for selecting products verified to have been extracted or sourced in a responsible manner. Learn more about this credit.
Material Ingredients
This credit is intended to encourage the use of products and materials for which life-cycle information is available and that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable life-cycle impacts. It is also intended to reward project teams for selecting products for which the chemical ingredients in the product are inventoried using an accepted methodology and for selecting products verified to minimize the use and generation of harmful substances. Furthermore, it is intended to reward raw material manufacturers who produce products verified to have improved life-cycle impacts. Learn more about this credit.
Construction and Demolition Waste Management
This credit is intended to reduce construction and demolition waste disposed of in landfills and incineration facilities through waste prevention and by reusing, recovering, and recycling materials, and conserving resources for future generations. Furthermore, it is intended to delay the need for new landfill facilities that are often located in frontline communities and create green jobs and materials markets for building construction services. Learn more about this credit.
Indoor Environmental Quality (0/16)
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Minimum Indoor Air Quality Performance
This credit is intended to contribute to the comfort and well-being of all building occupants by establishing minimum standards for indoor air quality (IAQ). Learn more about this credit.
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control
This credit is intended to prevent or minimize exposure of building occupants, indoor surfaces, and ventilation air distribution systems to environmental tobacco smoke. Learn more about this credit.
Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies
This credit is intended to promote occupants’ comfort, well-being, and productivity by improving indoor air quality. Learn more about this credit.
Low-Emitting Materials
This credit is intended to reduce concentrations of chemical contaminants that can damage air quality and the environment, and to protect the health, productivity, and comfort of installers and building occupants. Learn more about this credit.
Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan
This credit is intended to promote the well-being of construction workers and building occupants by minimizing indoor air quality problems associated with construction and renovation. Learn more about this credit.
Indoor Air Quality Assessment
This credit is intended to establish better quality indoor air in the building after construction and during occupancy to protect human health, productivity, and wellbeing. Learn more about this credit.
Thermal Comfort
This credit is intended to promote occupants’ productivity, comfort, and well-being by providing quality thermal comfort. Learn more about this credit.
Interior Lighting
This credit is intended to promote occupants’ productivity, comfort, and well-being by providing high-quality lighting. Learn more about this credit.
Daylight
This credit is intended to connect building occupants with the outdoors, reinforce circadian rhythms, and reduce the use of electrical lighting by introducing daylight into the space. Learn more about this credit.
Quality Views
This credit is intended to give building occupants a connection to the natural outdoor environment by providing quality views. Learn more about this credit.
Acoustic Performance
This credit is intended to provide workspaces and classrooms that promote occupants’ well-being, productivity, and communications through effective acoustic design. Learn more about this credit.
Integrative Process (0/1)
Integrative Process
This credit is intended to support high-performance, cost-effective, equitable project outcomes through an early analysis of the interrelationships among systems. Learn more about this credit.
Innovation (0/6)
Innovation
This credit is intended to encourage projects to achieve exceptional or innovative performance to benefit human and environmental health and equity. It is also intended to foster LEED expertise throughout building design, construction, and operation and collaboration toward project priorities. Learn more about this credit.
LEED Accredited Professional
This credit is intended to encourage the team integration required by a LEED project and to streamline the application and certification process. Learn more about this credit.
Regional Priority (0/4)
Regional Priority Specific Credits
These credits are intended to provide an incentive for the achievement of credits that address geographically specific environmental, social equity, and public health priorities. Learn more about this credit.
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