Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Envision? Rating System: Applicability to Water Infrastructure Projects

摘要

In recent years, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and its successful Leadership inrnEnergy and Environmental Design (LEED?) rating systems have improved the sustainability ofrnbuildings and the building industry. The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) seeks tornfoster similar transformational change in horizontal infrastructure through the application thernEnvision? sustainable infrastructure rating system. This paper presents a brief history of ISI, thernEnvision? rating system and provides a discussion of its potential application to waterrninfrastructure projects