In May, the U. S. Green Building Council officially handed off its LEED credentialing program to a third party—the Green Building Certification Institute—which led to a scramble by some people to take the USGBC test for Accredited Professional certification before everything changed.
“The rollout has been complicated, but anything with LEED has to keep evolving with the market,” says Courtney France, a Denver-based independent sustainability consultant who provides LEED training nationwide.