What are the new LEED AP specialty designations? How will they differ from my current LEED AP status and what are the benefits? What resources are there to help me pass the exam? What are the requirements for maintaining the LEED AP Specialty credentials? If I'm a LEED Green Associate or LEED AP, what do I need to do to maintain my credential? This is a 1-hr presentation on the new LEED AP specialty designations and maintaining your LEED Credential. The new specialty exams include: Building Design and Construction (the old NC), Interior Design and Construction (the old CI), Operations and Maintenance (the old EBOM), Homes, and Neighborhood Development. Get answers to the above questions and bring questions of your own.

1. Become a LEED AP & Maintain Your Credential

2. Who are we? Continuously improving the built environment

4. LEED & Green Project Management- 8 AIA Sustainable Design CE, GBCI LEED-Specific CEU for BD+C, ID+C and O+M

5. Energy Modeling for LEED Certification- 16 AIA Sustainable Design CE, GBCI LEED-Specific CEU for BD+C

6. Green Building Case Study- 1.5 AIA Sustainable Design CE, GBCI CE

7. Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology & Life Sciences

9. Why go for the LEED AP credential? Recognition

10. Why go for the LEED AP credential? Trust

11. Why go for the LEED AP credential? Knowledge

13. Tier II—LEED AP

14. Tier III—LEED AP FellowThere are now eligibility requirements for all levels of the exam in addition to credentialing maintenance requirements.

15. The LEED AP Exam

17. Commercial building design and construction

18. Commercial operations and maintenance

19. Commercial interior design and construction

20. Residential design and construction

21. Neighborhood development

22. Must pass 2 exams- Green Associate (2 hrs, 100 mult. choice questions) and AP (2 hrs, 100 mult. choice questions)

25. LEED AP Exam LEED AP candidates must pass both the Green Associate and the LEED AP sections of the exam to earn the LEED AP credential. You are allowed three attempts per section during the one-year application period.

27. Knowledge of administrative processes, including registration, certification, CIRs, etc.

28. Familiarity with terminology

29. Potential strategies for achieving sustainability goals

34. Select “Enroll in the LEED AP with Specialty Credential.”

36. OR complete prescriptive CMP requirements during the initial 2-year reporting period.

37. If enrolling through retesting, only the specialty exam is required.

39. will continue to be listed as LEED APs without specialty in the LEED Professional Directory,

40. will hold the credential in perpetuity, and

42. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential All LEED APs must earn 30 hours (minimum of 6 must be LEED-specific) of continuing education (CE) during the 2-year period following the date they are awarded their credential. CE must be related to green building, green technology and/or LEED. Requirements are prescriptivefor all LEED Green Associates and LEED APs.

43. LEED AP Prescriptive Requirements Requirements amount to only 24 hours. The 6additional CE hours can be earned in any category

44. LEED AP Prescriptive Requirements If LEED APs without specialty who enrolled through prescriptive credential maintenance decide they want to take the exam instead, their prescriptive credential maintenance requirements change to non-prescriptive and are prorated based on the amount of time between their enrollment date and their exam date.

45. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential for Newly Accredited LEED Professionals For those who passed the GA or specialty AP exam before August 3, 2009, the reporting period ends August 2, 2011. For those who passed the GA or specialty AP exam after August 3, 2009, the reporting period beings on the exam date and ends 2 years minus 1 day from the state date.

46. Newly Accredited LEED Professionals If LEED APs with specialty maintain their credential by retesting, they must register for the exam between 12 months after the start date and 3 months from the end of the reporting period (months 13-21). LEED APs with specialty who retest do not have to complete continuing education in that initial two-year period. If LEED APs wait until 24 months after their exam date and their credential expires, they must retake both parts of the exam to become a LEED AP with specialty.

49. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential LEED APs who have more than one specialty must maintain each of them. One will be designated as the primary specialty; all others will be secondary specialty(ies). LEED APs who passed more than one of the “old” exams (NC, CI or EBOM) must complete hours of CE for each specialty; 6 of these hours must be LEED-specific for each specialty.

50. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

51. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential LEED APs who passed one of the “old” exams and one of the new exams (BD+C, ID+C or O+M) must complete 30 hours of CE in their primary specialty (6 LEED-specific) and only 6 additional LEED-specific hours for their secondary specialty(ies). The primary specialty corresponds to the BD+C, ID+C, O+M track, and the new specialty exam will become the secondary specialty(ies).

52. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential If the primary and secondary specialty(ies) are not earned at the same time, the CMP requirement for the secondary specialty is prorated for the reporting period in which it was earned; the reporting period stays the same.

53. Obtaining the Continuing Education Hours

55. Self-study programs and college and university courses do not have to be approved by an ERB.LEED-specific hours can be earned through ERB- or GBCI-approved activities, project participation and/or authorship.

57. The LEED certification process OR

58. LEED Online

60. Obtaining the CE Hours CE hours are calculated differently depending on the activity delivery method: Professional development/continuing education courses Live presentations Self-study programs, including reading College and university courses Certificates, professional licenses and credentials Committee and volunteer work Authorship LEED project participation

62. Do not endorse or promote any companies or products

63. Increase competency

65. LEED AP CMP Categories 2

66. LEED AP CMP Categories 3

67. LEED AP CMP Categories 4

68. LEED AP CMP Categories 5

69. LEED AP CMP Categories 6

70. LEED AP CMP Categories 7

71. LEED AP CMP Categories 8

72. Documenting Your Continuing Education Hours

73. Documenting Your CE Hours CE hours are documented online through “My Credentials”:

74. Documenting Your CE Hours Select the category to which the CMP activity applies and select “Add”

75. Documenting Your CE Hours Enter the activity date, subcategory, delivery methods, description, details, content type and CE hours earned

76. Documenting Your CE Hours – Resources A CMP Wizardwith: activity descriptions step-by-step guide to documenting CMP activity activity tracking forms is available at http://www.gbci.org/cmp-wizard.aspx

77. Documenting Your CE Hours Random audits of 5-7% of CE hours will be conducted. Backup documentation of reported hours will be requested and will be reviewed and either accepted or denied by GBCI. If hours are denied and a deficiency is determined, additional hours must be reported and submitted with backup documentation within 90 days (and before the end of the AP’s reporting period). If the deficiency remains after 90 days, the credential expires.

80. DATE: May 12, 2011, 8:30am-5pm

81. Boston, MA

82. 700 free practice questions through GreenExamPrep

85. Includes ERB-approved courses, workshops, career training, workforce training, etc. Exam prep courses are not included

86. In addition to being approved by an ERB, must be:

87. Designed and instructed by people qualified in the subject matter

88. Provide documentation of course completion

90. CE hours may be earned only once for attending or leading the same instructional program

91. CE hours earned as an instructor, discussion leader, speaker or panelist may not exceed 50% of the total CE hours per 2-year reporting period

93. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

95. Must be between 50 and 90 minutes long

98. CE hours possible

99. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

101. Includes content delivered in webinars, books or articles, digitized lectures and written or online exams at least 60 minutes long

102. Only LEED-specific hours must be approved by an ERB

104. CE hours are limited to 5 per reporting period

105. CE hours possible

106. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

108. Both credit and non-credit courses accepted

109. Only LEED-specific hours must be approved by an ERB

110. CE hours are earned at a rate of 1 CE hour per classroom hour

111. CE hours are unlimited

113. Does not count towards LEED-specific hours

114. Must be earned during the reporting period and are only counted when license is initially earned

115. CE hours possible

116. 1 CE hour for certificates

118. Does not count towards LEED-specific hours

120. CE hours possible

121. 2 CE hours for holding leadership position (chair, vice chair, president, vice president or chapter advocacy program leader or serving on USGBC or GBCI Board of Directors)

123. Articles and books are automatically audited

124. Can contribute to LEED-specific hours if linkages to rating system(s) is/are demonstrated

125. Work must be published during the 2-year reporting period

126. CE hours possible

127. 3 CE hours for published articles

129. Project must be registered but certification is not required

130. Earns LEED-specific hours

132. CE hours possible

133. 1 CE hour per LEED credit or prerequisite

134. 2 CE hours per project for project administrators