Certified Green Consulting

Certified Green Consulting's new website is a resource for the Green Building industry. In addition to providing a brochure-like overview of the company's consulting services, the site also offers regular news and articles about Green building via the "Green Feed".

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Joanne Schlafer is the founder of Certified Green Consulting (CGC) and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She has over 25 years of experience managing large-scale programs and projects in the government, public and private sectors. In forming CGC, Joanne has combined her expertise in program and project management with her passion for sustainability. Joanne has experience in both commercial and residential building projects. Additionally, she is skilled in business program development and in implementing corporate-wide initiatives.

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.

LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant retrofit. And LEED for Neighborhood Development extends the benefits of LEED beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it serves.