LEED LAB
Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with
design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik created LEED Lab, in collaboration
with the US Green Building Council, an increasingly popular international interdisciplinary
collegiate laboratory course, which utilizes campus buildings as demonstration sites to
facilitate the green assessment of existing buildings. LEED Lab: A Model for Sustainable
Design Education uses the LEED O+M building rating system to measure and achieve
performance-driven campus facilities in which the readers work and operate.
The book explains in simple terms the theory, tasks, tools and techniques necessary for
credit implementation and achievement, and includes case studies and exercises for practical
application in each chapter. Readers will learn the conceptual scientic framework used to
understand existing operational performance and how to quantify sustainable synergies,
create green campus policies with administrators, and understand systems such as energy
and water in a research-based application. The entire manual is accompanied by a vast
online ‘Teaching Toolkit’ to provide helpful educational resources such as syllabi, lectures,
examinations, assignments, Individual Student Progress Presentation (ISSP) templates,
web resources, and much more.
An excellent guide for undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in LEED Lab or a similar
campus building assessment course, as well as construction or architectural professionals
and facility managers, this manual navigates the complexities of using a green building
diagnostic tool such as LEED O+M towards greater environmental literacy.
Patricia Andrasik is an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at
The Catholic University of America (CUA) and a licensed architect in Washington, D.C. She
was a Fulbright Scholar at the Slovak University of Technology while earning her Master of
Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. She then taught as a visiting professor in Beirut
prior to returning to the US to practice.
Informing design through performance metrics, and using performance metrics to inform
building operations and maintenance, have become the foundations of her teaching and
scholarly research, and internationally recognized by the publications/conferences of
organizations including JNIBS, NBI, AASHE, ACSA, AIA/COTE, and others.
Andrasik has created several novel courses to promote environmental integration
into architecture. She was awarded seed funding to integrate building performance
analytics (BPA) into the design process for local and international architectural projects,
and collaborated with Autodesk to run a pilot class for analytical plug-ins. In addition
to co-authoring Heating Cooling Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net
Zero Design (Fifth Edition, 2020), Andrasik co-founded BEEnow, a non-prot organization
inspiring NAAB-accredited schools to emphasize the teaching of low-energy design, and
recently received the President’s Award for the Advancement of Teaching at CUA.
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