USGBCLocal Leadership Awards
LEED and high-performance building work, recognised at project and individual level.
- Reach
- State & regional
- Run by
- USGBC
- Disciplines
- MEP · Municipal · Water & Wastewater
Who enters
Nominated within a USGBC community — projects, organisations and individuals are all eligible depending on the category.
Categories include
A sample, not the full list — these programs restructure their categories between years. USGBC publishes the current one.
- Project of the Year
- Organizational Leadership
- Individual Leadership
- Community Impact
The route, start to finish
- 01Nomination within the local USGBC community
- 02Selection at state or regional level
What it signals when you’re hiring
Metro Associates’ own read, not USGBC’s.
LEED credentials are common on CVs and mean less than they used to. Recognition through a USGBC community is a step above the credential itself: it means someone else in that market put the person's name forward.
Roles whose work ends up in an entry like this
- Sustainability Lead
- MEP Engineer
- Municipal Project Manager
We staff the firms that enter. We don’t enter.
Metro Associates is a recruiting firm, and a recruiting firm is not eligible for an engineering award. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a winner of the Local Leadership Awards. The USGBC name and mark belong to USGBC, shown here to identify the program it runs. What we do is place the engineers whose work goes into entries like it.