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Hello all,

I have been away a while, I know, but for very good reason. I have been studying like a madman for my architecture licensing tests as well as my LEED accreditation. Also, in my time away I have received some constructive criticism of my blog. All of which, I am thankful for, and appreciate, so keep it coming. I don't feel the need to be specific about the criticism, but I definitely will be incorporating 100 percent of the critiques.

That being said I would like to announce that I have passed two of my licensing tests, and passed the LEED for New Construction exam. I will explain shortly, the LEED process for those who are not familiar with it. as for my architecture license, i still have seven more tests to go and an oral exam after passing all the written tests. So, I definitely will post my progress on those, as they occur.

LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. New Construction is the specific exam track that I pursued. LEED is a certification process for design professionals and for the buildings that are being designed. For professionals it is a test to accredit those who have a firm understanding how to use the LEED credit formats, in order to get buildings certified. LEED for buildings is a way of achieving graduating levels of "greenness". For buildings that maximize and utilize various techniques to attain credits in the LEED template. As in life, the more credits your building achieves the higher the certification level it achieves. For more information in the process, check out www.usgbc.org and www.gbci.org .

That is all for this post, as well as the promise for more posts to come. I do encourage you all to read more about green building, it is important to me and I believe we all should know to do our part.