Developed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a set of rating systems for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes, and neighborhoods.The goal—to help building owners and operators be environmentally responsible。
由美国绿色建筑委员会（USGBC）开发的能源与环境设计先锋奖（LEED）是用于设计、建造、运营和维护绿色建筑、家庭和社区的一套评级系统，其目标是帮助业主和运营商对环境负责。
The LEED standards, originally developed in 1998, recently got a facelift and the LEED EBOM v4 has increased the green cleaning requirements in a truly positive way.What does this mean for you?If you work in or frequent a building, commercial center, or office that adheres to LEED standards, you may just start to breathe a whole lot easier this year as more green cleaning products and practices are put into play.
LEED的标准，最初开发于1998年，最近作了修改，LEED EBOM（LEED现存建筑运营与维护）第四版用积极的方式提升了绿色清洁的要求。 这对你意味着什么？ 如果你工作或经常出入的建筑、商业中心或办公室坚持LEED标准，你可能从今年开始呼吸得容易多了，因为越来越多的绿色清洁产品和实践投入应用。
According to Steve Ashkin, president of the green cleaning consulting company The Ashkin Group who was also involved with the LEED standards revisions, the changes include a notable increase in the required purchases of “green” chemicals, paper, and plastic liners from 30 percent to 75 percent—they also doubled the required purchases of “green” equipment.
绿色清洁咨询公司The Ashkin Group的总裁Steve Ashkin参与了LEED标准的修订，他表示此次修订显着增加了所需“绿色”化工品、纸和塑料的采购比例，从30％提高到75％，他们也把所需要购买的“绿色”设备增加了一倍。
“We also added new compliance options such as including EPA's Design for the Environment Program (DfE) and Ecoform's Transpare program, which creates more flexibility for both manufacturers and purchasers,” says Ashkin.One of the things I am most proud is that V4 expands the scope of responsibility for cleaning personnel to consider how they affect the building's energy and water consumption.”Here, we check in with Ashkin to learn more about the LEED changes and how they affect consumers and cleaning professionals alike.
“我们还增加了新的合规性选项，例如，包括EPA(环保署）的环保设计计划（DfE）和Ecoform公司的Transpare计划，从而产生了对制造商和购买者更多的灵活性，”Ashkin说， “其中一件最令我自豪的事是，第四版扩大清洁人员的责任范围，他们要考虑对建筑物的能源和水的消耗的影响。”这里，我们与Ashkin一起更多地了解LEED的变化以及它们如何影响消费者和清洁专业人士。
1、How are the LEED green cleaning requirement changes a positive move for consumers and cleaning professionals alike?
对消费者和清洁专业人士来说，LEED绿色清洁标准的变化有怎样的积极举措？
Ashkin : In the case of cleaning products and services, LEED has made it easier for manufacturers to understand what “green” consumers are asking for, while at the same time making it easy for consumers to actually buy those products without having a Ph.D.This marriage enables the market to work more efficiently, resulting in the development of chemical cleaning products, sanitary paper products, vacuums, and other tools and equipment that work effectively and are cost competitive, while reducing negative impacts on human health and the environment.
Ashkin ：在清洁产品和服务方面，LEED使得制造商更容易理解“绿色”消费者的要求是什么，同时让消费者更容易地购买这些产品，而无需博士学位，这让市场更有效地工作，使能有效工作和具有成本竞争力的化学清洁产品、卫生纸品、吸尘器以及其他工具和设备得到开发，同时减少对人类健康和环境的负面影响。
2、What are the most significant LEED green cleaning changes ?
什么是最显著的LEED绿色清洁的变化 ？
Ashkin : Version 4 (released in November 2013) offers new options for product certifications that makes it easier and more cost competitive to meet the requirements.For example, in addition to using third-party certifications from Green Seal and EcoLogo, Version 4 includes additional options including EPA's Design for the Environment Program (DfE) and ISSA's (International Sanitary Supply Association) Cleaning Industry Management Standard.It also encourages innovations such as the use of devices that convert water into an effective cleaning solution and sanitary paper products made from agricultural waste or rapidly renewable tree fibers.And, finally, it significantly increases the percentage of “green” purchases that will further grow demand for these products, which in turn will encourage manufacturers to invest more into the development of innovative green solutions.
Ashkin：第四版（2013年11月发布）为产品认证提供了新的选择，可以使得更容易及更优价地满足要求，例如，除了使用来自第三方认证的Green Seal和EcoLogo，第4版提供了额外的选项，包括EPA(环保署)的环保设计计划（DfE）和ISSA（国际卫生用品协会）的清洁行业管理标准，它还鼓励创新，如用水转化为有效清洁溶液的设备，及从农业废弃物或快速再生树纤维制成的卫生纸产品，最终它显著地增加“绿色”采购额的百分比，这将进一步增长对这些产品的需求，反过来将促使厂商投入更多绿色创新解决方案的开发。
3、Why has LEED made these changes now?
为什么现在的LEED做出这些改变？
Ashkin : The US Green Building Council updates its LEED Rating Systems every three to five years to make sure that LEED is state-of-the-art.This is important as the issue of Green Buildings and Green Cleaning are accelerating quickly, because we are learning so much more about how our buildings and products are affecting human health and the environment both in the short and long term.It also aims to incorporate new tools and technologies so that we can better inform the decisions and tradeoffs being made.The staff and members of the USGBC take their mission very seriously and are working hard to make sure that LEED can be a tool of market transformation and contribute to a green, safer, and healthier environment for now and the future.
Ashkin：美国绿色建筑委员会（USGBC）每三至五年更新其LEED评级系统，以确保LEED是国家最先进的，随着绿色建筑和绿色清洁的问题正在迅速加快而变得重要，因为我们在着重学习建筑和产品在短期和长期对人类健康和环境的影响，它的目的还在于结合新的工具和技术，使我们可以更好地了解正在作出的决定和权衡。 USGBC的工作人员和成员十分重视他们的使命，并正在努力工作，以确保获得LEED可以是市场转型的一个工具，并有助于在今天和未来建立一个绿色、更安全、更健康的环境。
