LEED Gets Healthier: LEED for Healthcare Approved

LEED Gets Healthier: LEED for Healthcare Approved
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/101203-leed-gets-healthier.html

"The US Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED for Healthcare (LEED HC) rating system passed member ballot on November 16, 2010 with an 87% approval rate. Its passage brings to a close six years of developmental work, including contentious debates over credits for reduced use of toxic chemicals and the hardball tactics of industry trade associations. Environmental and health care activists endorsed the final draft after the USGBC made changes to the LEED Pilot Credit program in order to provide more opportunities to access five credits that were removed from earlier LEED HC drafts and placed in the LEED Pilot Credit Library."