Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Going national with LEED

Shahnaz Jaffari, RMMI's Technical Assistant, has served on the US Greenbuilding Council's West Region Council for the past year. This week, she was notified that she has been appointed to the National Regionalism Task Force. This task force is charged with looking at all the proposed changes to the LEED rating system and making recommendations to the LEED Steering Committee on how to give regional credits.
This is the first time USGBC is considering regional differences in LEED and it is groundbreaking for a representative of a small regional trade association to be named to the national task force. Shahnaz holds a master's degree in Construction Management, is a UCD graduate student of architecture and is a former owner of an architectural firm in Iran.
On top of everything else she's doing, she's working on finishing her thesis this spring.

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