GreenWizard starts offering design scenarios for LEED certification

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GreenWizard – a cloud-based product management and information-sharing website that simplifies building material selection, collaboration, and building modeling to optimize green building and LEED credits – recently announced that it is now offering architects the ability to run assessments for design credits, in addition to traditional product-specific LEED credits.  

Architects who use GreenWizard can model multiple LEED credit design assessments for any one project, save them within GreenWizard, and compare them to see which one creates the ideal balance between cost, site-specific design, and the clients’ objectives. Once the design has been finalized, the final assessment can be selected and, with capabilities GreenWizard is developing now, submitted through LEED Online. 

“GreenWizard’s tools enable the architect to save time and to better collaborate with the project team,” said Brent Trenga, LEED AP, BD+C, GreenWizard’s chief green officer. “For instance, for Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) credits 8.1 and 8.2, the architect can model the variables, including Occupied Floor Area, Floor Area with Direct Line of Sight, and Horizontal Views at seated eye level. All of these assessments can be saved, shared, examined, and modified, before choosing the desired solution.”

GreenWizard improves efficiency by offering design credit assessments to help enhance both form and function.  Below are the New Construction credits GreenWizard currently supports:

    Sustainable Sites - Credits 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
    Water Efficiency - Prerequisite 1, Credits 1, 2, 3
    Materials and Resources - Prerequisite 1
    IEQ - Prerequisite 1 & 2, Credits 1, 2, 5, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2

GreenWizard provides similar design credit assessments for Core & Shell and New Construction Retail, with more design credit assessments already in development.