LEED Buildings to Visit in Atlanta for Greenbuild 2019
Visit these LEED certified building in Atlanta at the Greenbuild 2019 conference.
Category: LEED Certified
Breaking News on USGBC Updates
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The LEED v4 Materials Credits You Can Actually Achieve
You wouldn’t go spend years developing a program, a rating system if you will, and get all sorts of input from a diverse group of industry experts, and have multiple rounds of consensus, if some of what you were proposing was not even possible, would you? Errrrrrr, the answer is apparently yes. While it has […]
LEED v4 Certification Tips Straight From USGBC
Did you know that there is official LEED submission guidance, straight from the good people at USGBC? There is! And you can download it below! One caveat – we took a read through it, and it seems to be a re-hash of what’s in the reference guide, but hey, at this point, anything helps. Download […]
LEED Certified Breweries in the U.S.
Green Badger’s list of sustainable and inspirational LEED certified breweries across the United States.
LEED Certified Wineries in the U.S.
Green Badger’s list of environmentally sustainable and architecturally inspirational LEED certified wineries across the United State.
New Guidance From USGBC On Sourcing of Raw Materials
It isn’t every day you get an update from USGBC that corrects something they did that just didn’t make sense. While that could apply to any number of LEED v4 credits, this one applies to MRc3, Sourcing of Raw Materials, Option 2. This is the credit that is most similar to LEED 2009, where you […]
The EPDs You CAN’T Miss
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for LEED v4 Materials and Resources Credit 2 can be tough to come by. It can take over a year for a product to get an EPD developed, and that is if there is a product category rule already in existence. We won’t bore you with those details, but will share […]
HPDs the Easy Way
At Green Badger, we’re all about efficiency – making LEED documentation more efficient, helping you select your next beer quicker – you get the point. So this will be short and sweet. Moving forward, as we continue to grow and expand our v4 product database, we’ll be providing updates on broad product brands and categories […]
Spec, verify, repeat!
Every day I have a conversation with someone struggling through the EPD and HPD credits for LEED v4. It is odd – those two are only worth 2 points, so amount of time and effort spent should be minimal or you could just ignore those 2 points and opt for easier ones. Well, if you […]