Kimberly worked with the LEED ® Technical Development staff to help facilitate the transition to the new LEED 2009 rating systems. She developed a software tool for builders to identify which LEED credits were most relevant to their desired goals such as reducing carbon footprint, water savings, and indoor environmental quality. USGBC will host the overlay tool on its website for project teams to use early in the design process. The tool aims to provide project teams with a transparent view of the real environmental impacts of pursuing LEED certification, rather than emphasizing initial costs. Kimberly also created a catalog of the Innovation and Design credits achieved by all certified projects to communicate which strategies were most commonly pursued (including Green Housekeeping and Educational Outreach). This catalog can be used to strengthen future versions of the LEED rating system by raising the bar for project certification.

"MAPpy Hour should be a regular occurrence for each major city with MAP Fellows! Those get-togethers were so fun - it is great to have friends in a new, unfamiliar city, and now I have new friends when I return to Stanford!"

"Kim's work over the course of the summer produced two tangible results that will greatly assist USGBC in the development of LEED and LEED users in its application."