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Purpose The LSC is an integrated group of volunteers and staff charged with developing and maintaining the LEED rating system as a leadership tool, preserving the integrity of the framework of LEED, and ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve all LEED rating systems in accordance with the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC.

Four principles guide LEED Steering Committee activities:

1. LSC will conduct itself in a way that ensures transparent, participatory, and effective governance.

2. LSC will ensure that LEED remains technically rigorous, market relevant, and leadership oriented.

3. LSC will ensure consistency among all LEED rating systems.

4. LSC will ensure collaboration among LEED committees, advisory groups, and staff.

Roles and Responsibilities LSC works to establish the strategic direction and oversight for LEED, ensures that LEED project performance meets the goals of LEED, and perpetuates LEED’s evolution based on project experience, building market maturity, and technological advancements. Specifically, LSC:

1. Sets the strategic priorities and framework for LEED rating system development globally.

2. Approves a framework for LEED development that ensures technical rigor while considering market leadership and feasibility.

3. Establishes and charges working groups to assist in developing LEED and support LEED implementation and maintenance

4. Addresses the technical, market, and implementation issues of the LEED framework encompassing all LEED rating systems for the global markets.

5. Adjudicates LEED committee and working group issues during LEED development.

6. Reviews committee- and working group-recommended improvements to LEED to affirm alignment with the framework for LEED.

Additionally, LSC will have the following roles:

1. Governance: To maintain consistency, consensus, openness, and transparency, LSC shall:

   • Record, approve, and distribute official committee meeting minutes.

   • Communicate with the USGBC Board, LEED committees, and working groups regarding activities and decisions and determinations made by LSC.

   • Coordinate with LEED committees to ensure proper execution of their responsibilities in conformance with the Foundations of LEED and the USGBC Policies and Procedures for Committees and Working Groups.

   • Constitute and direct LEED working groups to ensure proper execution of their responsibilities in conformance with the Foundations of LEED and the USGBC Policies and Procedures for Committees and Working Groups.

2. International: LSC will collaborate with each consensus committee and USGBC staff to ensure the technical rigor of LEED is maintained as it is applied in other countries.

3. Education: LSC will liaise with appropriate committees and working groups to ensure information about LEED development, implementation, and market expansion is readily available.

4. Emerging Issues: LSC will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to address priority issues not described above to facilitate the advancement of LEED in the buildings industry; LSC and staff will collaborate to identify lead responsibility for new issues.

Membership LSC is made up of volunteers as voting members and USGBC staff non-voting members, outlined below.

Volunteer – Voting Members

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