LEED Tracking Software Evaluation
by gogol
This article was contributed by Houston Neale of Software Advice
As any LEED AP knows, tracking LEED credits is a document-intensive process. Submittal documentation includes drawings, receipts, product spec sheets, photos, commission plans and more. Adding to the clutter, numerous project members will access and edit these documents.
Project management software, especially web-based systems, makes document management easy. Because of this, we're seeing a lot more contractors and APs use software to manage LEED building projects. Some software vendors have added LEED tracking capabilities to their existing systems; others have customers who have developed their own work-arounds.
Aside from tracking documents, project management software can be used to schedule and coordinate important project dates (e.g. commissioning sessions), it can give you a competitive edge to win more LEED projects and it provides the document tracking required to get AP accreditation.
We expect to see a lot more software development as the number of annual LEED projects continues to grow. In the meantime, we’ve researched what’s available, how it works and how you can benefit from it. To learn more, visit: Track LEED v3 Credits in Project Management Software
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Editor's Note:
In LEED Online v3, USGBC is itself providing a significant amount of LEED requirements and documentation tracking capability, and hence firms may be inclined to use that instead of separate software. It'll be interesting to see which of the companies discussed above achieve easy integration with LEED Online in the near future.
07/17/09 03:47:06 pm, 