Leadership in Energy and Environment Design – it is a tool which rates the design, construction and operation performance of green buildings. Each building project has set prerequisites to meet to earn points towards different certification levels.
To better understand how LEED applies to metal buildings below is a chart showing how Nucor products earn LEED points:
| LEED Section * | Subject | Potential Points |
NBS Contribution |
| MR Credit 4.1 & 4.2 | Recycled Content | 2 | NBS Recycled Content over 89% |
| SS Credit 7.2 | Heat Island Effect: Roof | 1 | NBS Offers 2 roof paints with Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) over 78 |
| MR Credit 5.1 & 5.2 | Use of Regional Materials | 2 | NBS multiple plant locations and Nucor domestic steel mills can often contribute to the use of regional materials. This varies based on the job site. The local plant will assist in determining regional content |
| MR Credit 3.1 & 3.2 | Materials Reuse | 2 | All NBS steel materials are 100% recyclable in the future. |
| * Based on LEED for New Construction – Version 2.2 | |||