What are the new LEED AP specialty designations? How ill 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. Introduction to the LEED©AP Specialty Designationsand How to Maintain Your Credential

2. I. Introduction to The Green Roundtable / NEXUS II. LEED with Specialty Designation III. How to Maintain Your LEED AP Credential Session Agenda

4. Design charrettes

5. Feasibility assessment

6. Building systems analysis

7. Carbon footprint reduction

8. ENERGY STAR assessment

9. LEED certification

10. LEED support

11. LEED policy development

12. LEED credit calculation and strategic assistance review

13. Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology & Life Sciences

15. Boston Children’s Museum

16. Staples

17. Suffolk University’s 10 West Street Dorm

18. Burlington Office Park-5 Wall Street

19. Georgetown McDonough School of Business

21. LEED & Green Project Management

22. Energy Modeling for LEED Certification

23. Case Study Roundtables

24. Product Presentations

25. Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology & Life Sciences

27. I. Introduction to The Green Roundtable / NEXUS II. LEED with Specialty Designation III. How to Maintain Your LEED AP Credential Session Agenda

29. Tier II—LEED AP

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

32. Commercial building design and construction

33. Commercial operations and maintenance

34. Commercial interior design and construction

35. Residential design and construction

36. Neighborhood development

37. Must pass 2-part (including GA exam), 4-hour exam (200 multiple choice questions)

40. 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. If you pass one part of the LEED AP exam, you only have to retake the part you failed. If you only pass the first part of the LEED AP exam, you are NOT a LEED Green Associate.

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

43. Familiarity with terminology

44. Potential strategies for achieving sustainability goals

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

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

53. 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. For LEED APs without specialty who enroll in the CMP, these requirements are prescriptive for the initial reporting period. All other CMP requirements are non-prescriptive (no minimum requirements in categories).

54. LEED APs without Specialty Requirements amount to only 24 hours. The six additional CE hours can be earned in any category

55. LEED APs without Specialty 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.

56. 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.

57. 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. 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.

60. 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 30 hours of CE for each specialty; 6 of these hours must be LEED-specific for each specialty. The prescriptive requirements apply for the initial reporting period.

61. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

62. 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 NC, CI or EBOM track, and the new specialty exam will become the secondary specialty(ies)

63. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

64. 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.

67. The LEED certification process OR

68. LEED Online

71. Live presentations

72. Self-study programs, including reading

73. College and university courses

74. Certificates, professional licenses and credentials

75. Committee and volunteer work

76. Authorship

78. Do not endorse or promote any companies or products

79. Increase competency

81. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

82. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

83. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

84. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential

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

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

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

89. Provide documentation of course completion

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

92. 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

94. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

96. Must be between 50 and 90 minutes long

99. CE hours possible

100. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

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

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

105. CE hours are limited to 5 per reporting period

106. CE hours possible

107. 1 CE hour for first hour of the activity

109. Both credit and non-credit courses accepted

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

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

112. CE hours are unlimited

114. Does not count towards LEED-specific hours

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

116. CE hours possible

117. 1 CE hour for certificates

119. Does not count towards LEED-specific hours

121. CE hours possible

122. 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)

124. Articles and books are automatically audited

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

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

127. CE hours possible

128. 3 CE hours for published articles

130. Project must be registered but certification is not required

131. Earns LEED-specific hours

133. CE hours possible

134. 1 CE hour per LEED credit or prerequisite

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

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

138. Documenting Your CE Hours – Resources A CMP toolbox with: activity descriptions step-by-step guide to documenting CMP activity activity tracking forms is available at http://www.gbci.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=228

139. Documenting Your CE Hours – Resources

140. 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.

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