What are the new LEED AP specialty designations? How ill they differ from my current LEED AP status and what are the benefits? What resources are there to help me pass the exam? What are the requirements for maintaining the LEED AP Specialty credentials? If I'm a LEED Green Associate or LEED AP, what do I need to do to maintain my credential?
This is a 1-hr presentation on the new LEED AP specialty designations and maintaining your LEED Credential. The new specialty exams include: Building Design and Construction (the old NC), Interior Design and Construction (the old CI), Operations and Maintenance (the old EBOM), Homes, and Neighborhood Development. Get answers to the above questions and bring questions of your own.
37. Must pass 2-part (including GA exam), 4-hour exam (200 multiple choice questions)
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40. LEED AP Exam LEED AP candidates must pass both the Green Associate and the LEED AP sections of the exam to earn the LEED AP credential. You are allowed three attempts per section during the one-year application period. If you pass one part of the LEED AP exam, you only have to retake the part you failed. If you only pass the first part of the LEED AP exam, you are NOT a LEED Green Associate.
53. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential All LEED APs must earn 30 hours (minimum of 6 must be LEED-specific) of continuing education (CE) during the 2-year period following the date they are awarded their credential. CE must be related to green building, green technology and/or LEED. For LEED APs without specialty who enroll in the CMP, these requirements are prescriptive for the initial reporting period. All other CMP requirements are non-prescriptive (no minimum requirements in categories).
54. LEED APs without Specialty Requirements amount to only 24 hours. The six additional CE hours can be earned in any category
55. LEED APs without Specialty If LEED APs without specialty who enrolled through prescriptive credential maintenance decide they want to take the exam instead, their prescriptive credential maintenance requirements change to non-prescriptive and are prorated based on the amount of time between their enrollment date and their exam date.
56. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential for Newly Accredited LEED Professionals For those who passed the GA or specialty AP exam before August 3, 2009, the reporting period ends August 2, 2011. For those who passed the GA or specialty AP exam after August 3, 2009, the reporting period beings on the exam date and ends 2 years minus 1 day from the state date.
57. Newly Accredited LEED Professionals If LEED APs with specialty maintain their credential by retesting, they must register for the exam between 12 months after the start date and 3 months from the end of the reporting period (months 13-21). LEED APs with specialty who retest do not have to complete continuing education. If LEED APs wait until 24 months after their exam date and their credential expires, they must retake both parts of the exam to become a LEED AP with specialty.
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60. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential LEED APs who have more than one specialty must maintain each of them. One will be designated as the primary specialty; all others will be secondary specialty(ies). LEED APs who passed more than one of the “old” exams (NC, CI or EBOM) must complete 30 hours of CE for each specialty; 6 of these hours must be LEED-specific for each specialty. The prescriptive requirements apply for the initial reporting period.
62. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential LEED APs who passed one of the “old” exams and one of the new exams (BD+C, ID+C or O+M) must complete 30 hours of CE in their primary specialty (6 LEED-specific) and only 6 additional LEED-specific hours for their secondary specialty(ies) The primary specialty corresponds to the NC, CI or EBOM track, and the new specialty exam will become the secondary specialty(ies)
64. Maintaining Your LEED AP Credential If the primary and secondary specialty(ies) are not earned at the same time, the CMP requirement for the secondary specialty is prorated for the reporting period in which it was earned; the reporting period stays the same.
122. 2 CE hours for holding leadership position (chair, vice chair, president, vice president or chapter advocacy program leader or serving on USGBC or GBCI Board of Directors)
136. Documenting Your CE Hours Select the category to which the CMP activity applies and select “Add”
137. Documenting Your CE Hours Enter the activity date, subcategory, delivery methods, description, details, content type and CE hours earned
138. Documenting Your CE Hours – Resources A CMP toolbox with: activity descriptions step-by-step guide to documenting CMP activity activity tracking forms is available at http://www.gbci.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=228
140. Documenting Your CE Hours Random audits of 5-7% of CE hours will be conducted. Backup documentation of reported hours will be requested and will be reviewed and either accepted or denied by GBCI. If hours are denied and a deficiency is determined, additional hours must be reported and submitted with backup documentation within 90 days (and before the end of the AP’s reporting period). If the deficiency remains after 90 days, the credential expires.
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