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LEED Existing Building
Operations and Maintenance
HP products and recycling services play a role with credit
achievement in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Rating
System for Existing Buildings outlined at: usgbc.org/leed#rating
Information about LEED
Background
The most common building certication for environmental sustainability is the U.S. Green
Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building
Rating System™ usgbc.org/leed. LEED is a third-party certication program and the
internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high
performance green buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by
recognizing performance in ve key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable
site development, water savings, energy eciency, materials selection and indoor environmental
quality. LEED v4 was announced on January 4, 2016 and includes Rating Systems for both
New Construction and for Existing Buildings.
Are HP Products LEED Certied?
HP frequently receives customer questions about “LEED certied” products or how HP products
can contribute to LEED certication. To appropriately answer the question, it is important to
know that the LEED standards dene expectations for the design and construction of buildings.
In fact, one of the minimum requirements for LEED certication is that the project being
certied “must be a building.” Thus, technology products cannot be “LEED certied.” However,
products and services do play a role and can help projects with credit achievement, but do not
themselves earn project points.
Are there incentives for customers to earn LEED certication?
LEED certied buildings qualify for tax rebates, zoning allowances and other incentives in
hundreds of cities. For more information on state and local initiatives, go to the USGBC
Government Policies website: usgbc.org/about#advocacy
Brochure | HP products designed for LEED compliance
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