Good Morning Readers. Maybe it's the gloom of the impending Hurricane, but I've got a beef to pick with USGBC and GBCI (Green Building Certification Institute)!
As some of you may know, LEED AP professional certification is a valuable tool to have as a green building field worker. I have worked within two LEED project teams now and purchased $90 worth of study materials from USGBC and gave myself 2 months to prepare for a combined exam- which allows me to test for a Green Associates' designation and then a LEED AP, Building Design and Construction specialization. The whole exam takes about 4.5 hours and separate test is 100 questions.
After studying the USGBC-published study guide, the LEED 2009 manual, and over 500 pages of supplementary reading- I went to a computerized testing center last week to finally take my LEED exam.
Before I even submitted my exam, I knew I had failed. More than half of the questions were not anything similar to the study questions, and they...
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