LEED Rating System Information

LEED LEED is the most widely recognized green building rating system in the world. LEED certification offers a framework for healthy, efficient, and cost-effective green buildings, providing environmental and social benefits. It serves as a globally recognized symbol of sustainability leadership, supported by a committed community of organizations and individuals driving market transformation.

LEED v4.1 Info | LEED v5 BD+C Info | LEED v5 ID+C Info

LEED v4.1

Building Design and Construction (BD+C)

Category and Credit	Points	Mecho Contribution
Integrative Process (all sectors) Beginning in pre-design and continuing through the design phases, identify and use opportunities to achieve synergies across the discipline and building systems including shading, glazing lighting levels, and thermalcomfort ranges.	1	Mecho can develop an input file for the MEP that will cost-effectively add shade automation to the building's modeling program, saving time needed for the MEP to include automated shade control.
Energy and Atmosphere Optimize Energy Performance (all sectors) Achieve increasing levels of energy performance beyond the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental and economic harms associated with excessive energy use.	1-18	Motorized shades with SolarTrac in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) system.
Materials and Resources Material Ingredients (all sectors) Option 1: Material Ingredient Reporting Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that use any of the following programs to demonstrate the chemical inventory of the product to at least 0.1% (1,000 ppm).	1–2	Declare: EcoGlass, EcoSheer, EcoVeil, and Equinox shade cloths. C2C: EcoVeil, EcoSheer, and EcoGlass shade cloths, manual shades. HPD: Chelsea, EcoVeil, EcoSheer, EuroTwill, SoHo, SoHo Elavate, and ThermoVeil shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Materials and Resources Sourcing of Raw Materials (all sectors) Product uses recycled content.	1–2	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Environmental Product Declarations Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that meet EPD disclosure critera. Product-specific Type III EPD)	2	All manual shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Low-Emitting Materials (all sectors) Product has been tested according to CDPH Standard Method v1.2-2017 (Greenguard Gold, Clean Air Gold).	1–3	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Daylight (all sectors) Option 2: Simulation: Illuminance Calculations. Spaces with view-preserving automatic (with manual override glare-control devices.	1–3	Motorized shades with SolarTrac.

LEED v5

Building Design and Construction (BD+C)

Category and Credit	Points	Mecho Contribution
Integrative Process (all sectors) Beginning in pre-design and continuing through the design phases, identify and use opportunities to achieve synergies across the discipline and building systems including shading, glazing lighting levels, and thermalcomfort ranges.	1	Mecho can develop an input file for the MEP that will cost-effectively add shade automation to the building's modeling program, saving time needed for the MEP to include automated shade control.
Energy and Atmosphere Optimize Energy Performance (all sectors) Achieve increasing levels of energy performance beyond the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental and economic harms associated with excessive energy use.	1-18	Motorized shades with SolarTrac in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) system.
Materials and Resources Material Ingredients (all sectors) Option 1: Material Ingredient Reporting Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that use any of the following programs to demonstrate the chemical inventory of the product to at least 0.1% (1,000 ppm).	1–2	Declare: EcoGlass, EcoSheer, EcoVeil, and Equinox shade cloths. C2C: EcoVeil, EcoSheer, and EcoGlass shade cloths, manual shades. HPD: Chelsea, EcoVeil, EcoSheer, EuroTwill, SoHo, SoHo Elavate, and ThermoVeil shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Materials and Resources Sourcing of Raw Materials (all sectors) Product uses recycled content.	1–2	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Environmental Product Declarations Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that meet EPD disclosure critera. Product-specific Type III EPD)	2	All manual shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Low-Emitting Materials (all sectors) Product has been tested according to CDPH Standard Method v1.2-2017 (Greenguard Gold, Clean Air Gold).	1–3	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Daylight (all sectors) Option 2: Simulation: Illuminance Calculations. Spaces with view-preserving automatic (with manual override glare-control devices.	1–3	Motorized shades with SolarTrac.

LEED v5

Interior Design and Construction (ID+C)

Category and Credit	Points	Mecho Contribution
Integrative Process (all sectors) Beginning in pre-design and continuing through the design phases, identify and use opportunities to achieve synergies across the discipline and building systems including shading, glazing lighting levels, and thermalcomfort ranges.	1	Mecho can develop an input file for the MEP that will cost-effectively add shade automation to the building's modeling program, saving time needed for the MEP to include automated shade control.
Energy and Atmosphere Optimize Energy Performance (all sectors) Achieve increasing levels of energy performance beyond the prerequisite standard to reduce environmental and economic harms associated with excessive energy use.	1-18	Motorized shades with SolarTrac in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) system.
Materials and Resources Material Ingredients (all sectors) Option 1: Material Ingredient Reporting Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that use any of the following programs to demonstrate the chemical inventory of the product to at least 0.1% (1,000 ppm).	1–2	Declare: EcoGlass, EcoSheer, EcoVeil, and Equinox shade cloths. C2C: EcoVeil, EcoSheer, and EcoGlass shade cloths, manual shades. HPD: Chelsea, EcoVeil, EcoSheer, EuroTwill, SoHo, SoHo Elavate, and ThermoVeil shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Materials and Resources Sourcing of Raw Materials (all sectors) Product uses recycled content.	1–2	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Materials and Resources Environmental Product Declarations Use at least 20 different permanently installed products from at least five different manufacturers that meet EPD disclosure critera. Product-specific Type III EPD)	2	All manual shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Low-Emitting Materials (all sectors) Product has been tested according to CDPH Standard Method v1.2-2017 (Greenguard Gold, Clean Air Gold).	1–3	All shade systems and shade cloths.
Indoor Environmental Quality Daylight (all sectors) Option 2: Simulation: Illuminance Calculations. Spaces with view-preserving automatic (with manual override glare-control devices.	1–3	Motorized shades with SolarTrac.