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Green Building Education Services (GBES) is an online provider of the Original LEED Exam Prep. They provide study tools to a variety of customer ranging from architects, engineers, consultants, contractors and students. In addition, they offer continuing education for those who need to maintain their LEED credential. GBES is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, along with its sister company Sustainable Investment Group (SIG). GBES is a USGBC Education Partner.

History
GBES was founded by Scott Turner and Katie Cline in 2007. The company’s foundation is a mixture of the green building experience, professional credentialing, and exam prep systems. Their first product was LEED practice tests. The core of GBES is web-based automation. To this day, GBES products are not offered in tangible form. Their products have remained only web-accessible. GBES later introduced additional study materials, among those were flashcards, study guides and crash courses.

GBES was purchased by Charlie Cichetti in 2012. He holds all of the LEED credentials and is also WELL Faculty and WELL AP. With the introduction of the WELL AP credential in 2015, GBES created study materials for the WELL AP exam.

Mission & Product
The mission of GBES is to help people advance their careers in the green building movement. GBES offers practice exams, crash courses, flashcards, and study guides for the majority of the LEED credentials. They recently began selling WELL AP exam prep materials. They provide continuing education for all six LEED credentials as well.

Corporate Relations
GBES works to increase the magnitude of LEED professionals throughout the world by partnering with and providing study materials for corporations in the construction sectors. Some GBES's corporate clients are CBRE, Hess Construction, JLL, Turner Construction Company, Gensler, and Perkins+Will.

In June 2017, GBES announced an industry partnership with ARCOM, the creators of MasterSpec, to create education materials for architects, engineers, and building product manufacturers focusing on sustainable practices in specifications. GBES is an Education Partner of the USGBC. GBES is a yearly attendee at the USGBC Education Partner Summit as well as the USBGC Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.