2026 NOMA Conference - The Leading Edge
2026 NOMA Conference - The Leading Edge
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Session Details

Name
Designing with Data: LEED v5’s Human Impact Assessment for Neighborhood Quality of Life
Date & Time
Friday, October 16, 2026, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Speakers
Adele Houghton
Nyasha Felder
Larissa McFall
Adele Houghton Nyasha Felder Larissa McFall
Description

This hands-on workshop explores how LEED v5 elevates quality of life, equity, and community wellbeing through new prerequisites, with a focus on the Human Impact Assessment. These tools help project teams use LEED certification as a pathway to create measurable social and environmental benefits for building occupants, construction teams, and surrounding communities. Participants will learn to use a GIS-based web platform to compile and analyze socioeconomic, environmental justice, public health, and climate risk data through a human-centered framework. Through guided walkthrough and applied exercise, attendees interpret outputs to identify vulnerabilities, community priorities, and lived experience at site and neighborhood scales. The workshop emphasizes translating assessment findings into actionable design strategies that advance health, safety, resilience, and equity. Participants will work through case studies and structured templates to prioritize findings, connecting insights to design decisions, and aligning outcomes with LEED credits and integrative, community-engaged design processes. As expectations around transparency and accountability increase, architects are called to address climate hazards and social inequities shaping project performance. Amid reductions in federal open data access, the LEED data repository extends datasets and demonstrates the value of neighborhood-scale data for land use planning, reinforcing this assessment as a core responsibility of equitable, community-centered design.

Course Credit
LU/HSW
Number of Credits
1.5 Learning Units (90 min)
ID
4259
 
NOMA 2026

The Leading Edge

Annual Conference

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Conference Details

  • October 14–18, 2026
  • JW MARRIOTT MIAMI
    TURNBERRY RESORT & SPA
  • 19999 W Country Club Dr
  • Aventura, Florida, 33180

In-Person Conference

Join us for 60+ premiere sessions, keynotes, and workshops offering CEUs and insights into trends shaping the AEC industry. Explore the Expo, and enhance your experience with ticketed events including curated local tours and our Awards Gala celebrating design excellence.

Virtual Participation

Over 10 sessions of premiere seminars, workshops & keynotes present opportunities for CEUs, discussion, and education on relevant topics and projects across three days.

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