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From EPDs to Action: What LEED v5 Embodied Carbon Rules Mean for Your Projects
By Kristin Brubaker Head of Sustainable Construction Services At 6:04 a.m. on a Tuesday, the first concrete truck of the day rolls through a jobsite gate. That one truck carries about 10 cubic yards of…
LEED v5 Credits Explained: What Changed, What Stayed, and What It Means in Practice
by Lauren RichardsonSustainability Manager at Green Badger A lot of what you already know about LEED v4 and v4.1 still applies. But LEED v5 is the most significant update to the rating system in over…
Embodied Carbon on Real Projects: What Teams Are Actually Tracking
by Wiley Gross Sustainability Associate at Green Badger Nobody got into project management because they love chasing paperwork. Yet here you are, opening an RFP that asks you to report embodied carbon, a line item…
50,000 SF Is the New 100,000 SF: CALGreen’s Embodied Carbon Threshold Just Caught Up With Your Projects
by Lauren Breckenridge, LEED APSustainability Associate at Green Badger Somewhere in California right now, a project engineer on a 55,000-square-foot tilt-up is Googling “what is a GWP limit” three weeks before a submittal deadline. Here’s how…
Now Is the Best Time to Prepare for Next Year’s AIA Materials Pledge Report
Every year, many architecture firms approach the AIA Materials Pledge the same way they approach taxes. They know the reporting deadline is coming, but the work doesn’t really begin until reporting season arrives. By then,…
You Have More Time with LEED v4. Here’s How to Make the Most of It.
If you’ve been rushing to meet the June 30, 2026, deadline for registering projects under LEED v4 or v4.1, there’s good news: you can now relax a bit. LEED v5 is now available for registration,…
How to Collect EPDs Without Losing Your Mind
By Kristin Brubaker Head of Sustainable Construction Services If you have ever managed LEED documentation on a construction project, you know the drill. You send out a friendly request for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). You…
Takeaways from USGBC Transformation in Jersey City
By Kristin Brubaker Head of Sustainable Construction Services The green building industry is accelerating, and the conversations happening at green building events right now reflect that urgency. Last night, the USGBC New Jersey chapter hosted…
Building Reuse and Waste Diversion in the Southeast
by Lauren Richardson Sustainability Manager at Green Badger How LEED v5 Materials Credits connect to the circular economy movement, reshaping the region A circular economy is a system designed to keep materials in use for…
I Went to a Construction Conference and Left Wanting to Join the Girl Scouts
by Lauren Breckenridge, LEED AP Sustainability Associate at Green Badger Last week I had the opportunity to attend Engineering News-Record Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference, GWIC for short, in San Diego, and I am still thinking…
Contractor’s Commitment 3.0 Is on Its Way: Our Takeaways from USGBC California
If you caught one of our working group sessions on the next version of the Contractor’s Commitment at this year’s USGBC California conference, you already know the conversation is heating up. If you missed it,…
LEED v5 Is Here: What General Contractors Need to Know Right Now
If you’re a general contractor, superintendent, or project manager working on LEED-certified projects, here’s what you need to understand about what’s changing. One of the most important shifts in LEED v5 is how the points…
