Call for Volunteers: LEED Committees and Working Groups

Do you have practical experience with how buildings and communities are designed, constructed, and operated around the globe? Are you dedicated to advancing best practices in green building and sustainable development?

This call opens May 16, 2025, and the deadline for submissions is July 18, 2025, at 8:00 pm ET.

The U.S. Green Building Council calls for self-nominations by qualified applicants to serve as members of the LEED committees as outlined below. While there is no set number of volunteer positions available, we expect to appoint approximately 40 volunteers.

Each volunteer position will be for a first term of one year with an option to continue service in accordance with the following policy: 6.1 Committee and Working Group member terms: Committee members may serve a maximum of four consecutive years, after which they must take a two-year hiatus before being eligible for service on the committee again.

Note that USGBC policy states that individuals may serve on a maximum of three USGBC committees and two working groups at any one time. Any one member organization may not have more than one representative on any one committee and, except for federal government agencies, may have representatives on a maximum of five committees and four working groups at any one time.

Please see the expertise sought by each group and scheduled call times below. We are seeking diverse applicants from around the globe to fill the vacant positions.

USGBC is committed to inclusiveness and encourages the participation of stakeholders from all backgrounds in its volunteer committees, including but not limited to, diversity with respect to race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, ability, age, geography, and areas of relevant technical, market, and industry expertise.

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Qualifications

Required

• Employed by a USGBC member organization.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the below technical areas.
• Ability to attend at least two-thirds (67%) of all committee calls (1 hour in length, 2-3 calls per month), complete offline review and technical work of approximately 2-3 hours per call, and participate in additional calls as necessary.

Preferred

• LEED Green Associate or LEED Accredited Professional
• Experience with international LEED and green building rating system implementation

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How to submit an expression of interest with USGBC

Employees of USGBC member organizations interested in serving on any of the committees described below must complete the LEED Committee Expression of Interest Form online. Please note that USGBC might invite candidates to serve on a committee for which they did not indicate interest based on the candidate’s expertise and the needs of each committee.

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Applicable LEED committee descriptions

See the LEED Committees webpage for additional information, including committee purpose statements, current rosters, and links to meeting minutes for each committee.

Technical Advisory Groups

Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) recommend technical solutions to rating system development and maintenance questions. The groups provide a consistent source of technical advice regarding credit and prerequisite improvement and supporting tool development. TAGs are structured to include expertise for specific technical issues: Energy and Atmosphere (EA), Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ), Location and Planning (LP), Materials and Resources (MR), Sustainable Sites (SS), and Water Efficiency (WE). The role and responsibilities of the TAGs are detailed in their purpose statement. 

Standing biweekly call times for TAGs are as follows: 

• Tuesday at 4 pm ET (EQ TAG) 
• Wednesday at 12 pm ET (LP TAG) 
• Wednesday at 2 pm ET (SS TAG) 
• Thursday at 11 am ET (WE TAG) 
• Thursday at 1 pm ET (MR TAG) 
• Thursday at 3 pm ET (EA TAG)

Working Groups

Working groups recommend solutions to rating system development and maintenance questions. The groups are formed to advance specific initiatives within the LEED rating system and provide technical input on prerequisites, credits, and pilot credits. Currently, the working groups are structured to include expertise for specific issues. The roles and responsibilities of the working groups are detailed in their purpose statements (found in the charter for each).

Standing biweekly call times for Working Groups are as follows:

• Tuesday at 2 pm ET (Equity Working Group)
• Thursday at 11 am ET (Resilience)

Selection criteria

The open applications seek, at a minimum, the following specific areas of expertise. Candidates may indicate additional expertise beyond these areas in their expression of interest form.

Cities and Communities Consensus Committee

• Urban design (architecture, public realm design, infrastructure planning, etc.)
• Urban planning (land use, zoning, development policy, etc.)
• Real estate development (large-scale/multi-block)
• Local government
• Academia (as land-owners or practitioners)
• Public health
• Community engagement and planning/non-profit advisory

Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group (EA TAG)

• Public policy expert (state/local, federal and /or international)
• Building sector expertise
  • Existing buildings (facilities operations)
  • Residential
  • Data centers/manufacturing/healthcare and other high process loads project types
• Renewable energy procurement
• Development
• Grid interactive expertise
• Decarbonization planning (existing buildings)
• Resilience (mechanical and electrical systems)
• Passive buildings
• Building envelope commissioning
• Energy and atmosphere
• Energy incentive expertise (tax rebates/financing)
• Portfolio energy management (owner-side)
• GHG accounting (ESG metrics)
• Carbon offsets
• Portfolio/campus projects
• District heating and cooling

Indoor Environmental Quality Technical Advisory Group (EQ TAG)

• HVAC design
• Resilience and/or risk
• Energy preparedness planning and management
• Facility operations (air quality management, LEED O+M experience)
• Interior design/interior architecture (LEED experience, acoustics, multisensory design, experiential delight)
• Accessibility and inclusive design (including neuro-inclusive)
• Health and wellbeing (circadian health, environmental psychology, public health, epidemiology, environmental health)
• Air chemistry (indoor air chemistry, building microbiome, air cleaning and infection control)
• Climate-based modeling (thermal safety, passive and low-energy active design)

Location and Planning Technical Advisory Group (LP TAG)

• Land use and long-term planning
• Transportation demand management/performance metrics
• Transit planning
• Public health
• Equitable development and community benefits
• Owner/developer
• Operations and maintenance
• Urban design and site planning
• Public infrastructure planning/engineering
• Urban/data analytics

Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group (MR TAG)

• Architect/designer (climate adaptation design, material selection, waste prevention through design, mass timber, material health and product specification)
• General contracting (carbon reduction of equipment, jobsite sustainability practices, worker equity, wellness and safety on jobsites, construction waste management)
• Product standards/manufacturing (ESG expertise, circular economy, material health, material optimization, carbon reductions in manufacturing, LEM)
• Supply chain (circularity, human rights, labor advocate, reduced carbon in supply chain)
• Facility/operator (existing building purchasing, procurement and materials management, resource reuse, TRUE liaison)
• Structural engineering or academic (whole building LCA/software and product LCAs, carbon accounting, carbon sequestration)
• Embodied carbon (regional/global perspective; government experience; academia)
• Reuse and recycling (construction waste, TRUE, supply chain, reuse)

Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group (SS TAG)

• Stormwater design, operations, maintenance (green infrastructure, LID, etc.)
• Operations and maintenance (building and site)
• Environmental and social resilience
• Climate analysis and adaptation
• Ecology (restoration, conservation, and human wildlife interactions)
• Plant and soil sciences/soil amendments
• Urban planning (e.g., zoning and land development)
• Accessible urban design (e.g., ADA, universal design)
• Landscape architecture
• Engineering (civil, environmental, hydrology)

Water Efficiency Technical Advisory Group (WE TAG)

• Carbon (nutrient/energy/water nexus (NEW))
• Municipal and decentralized water policy, design, commissioning or operations
• Water quality, equity and affordability
• Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (with water emphasis) Codes and standards
• Manufacturing/data centers
• Civil and environmental engineering
• Landscape architecture, irrigation, and ecological integration

Equity Working Group

• Supply chain and fair procurement policies
• Social impact analysis
• Affordable housing
• Civic/community engagement
• Environmental justice and frontline communities
• Health and well-being in the built environment
• Labor, workforce equity and facility operations
• Cultural competency and inclusive design
• Urban planning and local government

Resilience Working Group

• Climate risk and vulnerability assessments
• Emergency preparedness and recovery
• Infrastructure and building systems resilience
• Passive and climate-responsive design
• Urban and regional resilience planning
• Local government and resilience policy
• Insurance and environmental risk analysis
• Labor and operational resilience
• Urban planning