JCCC can help you prepare for the LEED green associate test. LEED - leadership in energy and environmental design - is an internationally recognized green building certification system.  The credential provides outside verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve energy savings and water efficiency, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, improve indoor environmental quality and in general promote a wise and sensitive use of resources.

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is a "concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions."

LEED credentials are useful for architects, real estate professionals, facility managers, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, construction managers, lenders and government officials.

JCCC offers an introductory course geared to all industries that provides a broad overview of what LEED certification is. Also offered are preparation courses to qualify candidates for the LEED green associate accreditation examination, which is the first examination you have to take before you can take the LEED AP BD+C exam.

For more information about JCCC's LEED preparation courses, contact Debbie Rulo with the Center for Business and Technology, 913-469-8500, ext. 3398, drulo@jccc.edu.