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LEED for Retail vs. LEED ID+C: What's the Difference?

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Yaelle asks: What are the benefits of LEED for Retail vs. LEED ID+C? I would like to promote LEED for Retail to restaurants and bars but I'm not sure if they will want to absorb the costs... Thanks.

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Advice provided by: Amanda Gourgue, CMP, LEED AP, Meeting Revolution
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Hi Yaelle,

Thanks for your question. The LEED for Retail rating systems will be launched in later 2010. When it is unveiled, there will be two LEED for Retail systems:

- LEED for Retail: New Construction and
- LEED for Retail: Commercial Interiors

It sounds like LEED for Retail: Commercial Interiors would be exactly what you are looking for.

There aren't too many differences between the LEED 2009 for Commercial Interiors and LEED for Retail: Commercial Interiors.

The format is a little different and the wording for some of the credits has been changed but basically it is the same.

For more information, here the link for the LEED for Retail: Commercial Interiors member ballot. http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=4503

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