Building a LEED team

I was talking to Dave Kessler of Native Structures this morning about his projects, and mine, and something came up that might be useful to some of you trying to build for LEED. You can't just Google up a LEED carpentry team or a LEED plumber, etc. All of us are riding the learning curve together. That means when you start with your team, you talk about it as the job is underway, every day. How you don't go to the new lumber pile until after you go to the scrap pile to see if something there will suit. How you keep the recyclables out of the dumpster, and how you isolate Azek dust from other dust. Sooner or later, the team thinks about these things on their own, and you'll find them grousing because one of the scraps is 1/8th inch too short. Then, if there was any righteousness in the world, they'd come up under "LEED carpentry team."

I guess my point here is that a LEED team is made, not found; so get busy and make another one. There's room for more.