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LEED v5 Cover Sheet - Green Badger
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LEED v5 Submittal Cover Sheet

There is no industry standard for LEED submittal cover sheets. You can create your own, see if anyone on your project team has a standard template they've used in the past, or you can download our free submittal cover sheet template for submitting your LEED v5 product data, including the information you’ll need for embodied carbon calculations!

Download the LEED v5 Materials Submittal Cover Sheet Template

Using a LEED Submittal Cover Sheet

There are some pretty easy best practices that can really facilitate the documentation for materials and even low-emitting products.

Here’s one that you think would be commonplace, but at least in this Badger’s neck of the woods (literally), we don’t see all that frequently – using a required LEED Submittal Cover Sheet for all subcontractors. By having a coversheet that requires the subcontractor to provide cost and any relevant LEED data (e.g., EPDs, recycled content percentages, HPDs, VOC content), you obtain all this information upfront for the Building Product Selections and Procurement credit. Or, reject the submittal and send it back. Pretty straightforward.

Our submittal cover sheet template has sections to record information about:

  • Manufacturer Name 
  • Product Name 
  • Product Costs (only exclude install labor) ($)
  • Product Quantities and Units
  • Sustainable Product Data
    • Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) 
    • EPD Optimization (GWP reduction)
    • Health Product Declaration (HPD)
    • Declare Label
    • Cradle2Cradle (C2C)
    • C2C MHC
    • FSC Certified Wood Products (%) 
    • Post-Consumer Recycled Content (%) 
    • Pre-Consumer Recycled Content (%) 
    • Extended Producer Responsibility Material Ingredient Reporting (to 1000 ppm)
    • And more

Send out the LEED submittal cover sheet to all subs at the beginning of the project, let them know it is required, boom – you’re on your way.

No more getting 175-page submittals from the subs saying, “Here’s my LEED stuff”. This puts the onus on them to find the exact LEED information, making them part of the process, and making your life easier. We also provide some additional references, notes, and definitions in the second tab of the spreadsheet for you!

Our template also has sections to track VOC content related to the project's Low Emitting Materials:

  • CDPH Emissions testing compliance 
  • VOC Content (g/L) 
  • Wet-Applied Products Volume Used (L) 
  • If Wood Products are ULEF or NAUF12 
  • If Wood Products are CARB exempt

The LEED submittal coversheet gives you all the information you need to make embodied carbon calculations for LEED v5.

LEED v5 now includes credits and prerequisites focused on looking at embodied carbon from building products. For a deeper dive on that, you can visit our post on calculating embodied carbon. You can easily get all the information you’ll need for these LEED v5 embodied carbon calculations in this coversheet:

  • Material quantity
  • Material units
  • The EPD

So from there, you can take the Global Warming Potential Value (GWP) in the EPD, compare/adjust the units of measurement, and multiply that by the quantity of material on your project. Easy!