LEED Project Management with Josh Radoff
This 8 hour workshop is designed to inform participants of the ins and outs of successfully managing a LEED® project. Whether experienced with working on a LEED® registered project or new to the certification system, you will learn tips, potential pitfalls, strategies and best practices for integrating LEED® into your projects, as well as key tools and resources that can help you keep your team on track with your LEED® goals. The training will provide a brief overview of what's new with the LEED® rating system, and will focus primarily on developing an approach for achieving LEED certification including how to complete and manage completion of LEED® documentation, streamlining the certification process, and a step-by-step timeline of key tasks and milestones related to LEED®. The training includes group exercises and interactive sessions to allow participants to work through and fully engage in the course material.
About Josh Radoff
Josh is co-founder and Principal of YRG sustainability. He has a background in sustainable energy engineering and works at the intersection of the energy, climate, and green building fields. Josh is a regular speaker on sustainability issues and the LEED rating systems and has consulted on hundreds of sustainability projects for both public and private sector clients, nationally and internationally.
Josh has led a variety of sustainable development projects, through strategic guidance, charrette facilitation, design assistance, and technical analysis, with projects ranging from schools to office towers, affordable housing to retail, and new cities and mixed use neighborhoods. His projects have utilized and pursued certification across nearly all of the LEED rating systems.
Josh was one of the founding directors of GreenHomeNYC, a resource and advocacy group for green building in New York City, and is currently a board member of the Colorado Chapter of the USGBC. He holds Masters degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Columbia University in New York.
Principal Topics Included in the Course
The principal topics include:
- What's new with LEED®
- Managing goal setting and LEED® orientation for a project team
- Developing and implementing a LEED® Action Plan
- Mapping LEED® to the project schedule (and budget)
- Completing and managing documentation
- Streamlining the certification process
- Project management tools and resources: LEED® Online, LEED® User, etc.
- Case studies and lessons learned