Earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) points

USGBC’s LEED® (2009) www.usgbc.org  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the U.S. Green Building Council’s Green Building Rating System, a voluntary certification program for sustainable buildings. LEED Version 3 gives credit for a cool roof under Sustainable Sites Credit 7.2: Heat Island Effect: Roof. LEED New Construction credits roofs with a SRI value greater than or equal to 78 for low-slope roofs, and 29 for steep-slope roofs, covering at least 75% of the roof area.