For your convenience, Patcraft offers an online LEED Calculator initiative | 028 to help teams calculate the contribution of Patcraft products. The information below provides:

• LEED overview
• How carpet contributes to LEED
• Functions and benefits of Patcraft calculator

The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System® is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. It was created by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)to define green buildings and promote integrated, whole-building design practices.

LEED offers four levels of certification that are determined by the number of credit points achieved in defined categories.

While LEED provides guidelines for designing and building environmentally responsible structures, not all sustainable practices are included in the system. As LEED continues to develop and evolve, it will likely include additional strategies not currently specified.

By choosing a sustainable carpet system, you have secured one component among a list of building materials that can contribute toward the design and certification of a LEED building. Because no product can be LEED certified, meeting the minimum credit requirements often requires the LEED team to specify a multitude of environmentally responsible products.

Specifications of Patcraft products may be additive to the pursuit of a LEED point in the following categories:

Materials and Resources: Recycled Content Credit 4.1 and 4.2
Materials and Resources: Local/Regional Materials Credit 5.1 and 5.2
Indoor Environmental Quality: Low Emitting Materials Credit 4.3
Innovation & Design : Use of Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Credit 1

The Patcraft LEED Calculator is an online tool that will give you accurate information regarding the environmental attributes of Patcraft products you are specifying, as well as their contribution to the USGBC LEED Rating System. Here is what you can find using the LEED calculator from Patcraft:

• Automated Assistance with LEED documentation
• Customized review and comparison of multiple products
• Ability to print, download and/or email LEED Specification Sheets and analysis information for all products that contribute to the rating system.
• Reduced time and dollars associated with LEED research and documentation.
• Accurate and straight-forward information on product attributes and LEED contribution.