LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to set a benchmark for design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings.
LEED was created to establish a common standard of measurement for what constitutes a "green" building and serves as a design guideline for green building.
It provides building owners and operators with a framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.
LEED AND STONE BUSINESS
In some ways, natural stone belongs to the non-renewable resources. In the long run, it is also an environment polluted industry. Every year, millions pounds of stone materials that cannot be used to make new tile products. In some concentrated stone production area, air pollution, water pollution and energy waste are always the serious problems which obsess the local government.
How to save the limited resource, push the reuse program, develop recycle materials in stone industry, conserve the waste water and decrease the air pollution in production are the major problems which are urgently waiting for us to solve in future.
