Green Badger LEED & Sustainable Construction Resources
The Ultimate Guide to LEED v4 and v4.1 Construction Credits for General Contractors
The most comprehensive educational resource for general contractors, filled with practical guidance on how to achieve LEED construction credits.
It's essential for project teams to opt into LEED v4.1 for all the BPDO credits and for Low Emitting Materials. It may or may not be useful for Construction Waste Management, and won’t make a difference for Construction Activity Pollution prevention or Indoor air quality management.
Ebooks
LEED MRc5: Construction Waste Management
In this eBook, Green Badger gives you the best practices and strategies to earn the MRc5 credit for Construction Waste Management in LEED v4 and v4.1.
Green Jobsite Guidelines
While back at the home office, employees benefit from LED light, air monitoring, healthy snacks and EV charging. It often is very different at the jobsite trailer – where teams may be spending the next 24-36 months of their lives! This guide focuses on creating greener, healthier, and safer construction sites where the majority of employees spend their day.
Interior Architectural Finishes & Furniture for LEED
It’s one of the worst feelings for an interior designer: you put your heart and soul into a great design only to face last-minute changes dictated by factors outside of your control. Through our collaborations with thousands of project teams and hundreds of designers, Green Badger has identified interior architectural finishes and furniture products linked to LEED attributes.
Guide to EPD and MIR: Options 1 & 2
The general contractor gets a generic spec that says “Obtain EPDs where available,” but no strategy/guidance of where to look, or a spec that calls for a product with an HPD but it costs 20% more. That’s where this guide comes in. It’s a starting point for where to most easily and readily find products that meet the requirements for EPDs and MIR.
The LEED Product Guide
A framework of the product categories with the broadest number of manufacturers and product lines with EPDs, HPDs, Cradle to Cradle certifications, Declare labels. Along with anything else you need to earn LEED materials credits for Environmental Product Declarations, Option 1 & Material Ingredient Reporting, Option 1.
LEED v4.1 BioBased Product Guide – January 2024 Update
Biobased products meet one of the Leadership Extraction Practices requirements for Sourcing of Raw Materials under LEED v4.1. Green Badger has compiled a list of Biobased products to help guide you in your LEED journey.
Upcoming Webinars
October 2024 LEED Construction User Group
Register now! Bring all of your LEED questions and headaches to our October 2024 LEED Construction User Group.
On-Demand Webinars
Monthly LEED Construction User Group: February 2022
Connect with Green Badger the last Wednesday of every month to discuss increased software functionality, updates to LEED requirements, and get answers to your LEED construction questions.
LEED Construction User Group: January 2022
Connect with Green Badger the last Wednesday of every month to discuss increased software functionality, updates to LEED requirements, and get answers to your LEED construction questions.
Keep Your LEED Reviewers Happy: Expert Guidance for Your LEED Certification Submission to GBCI
Nothing dampens the mood like 20 pages of comments on your LEED certification review. Making sure your LEED documentation for submission to the GBCI meets all the proper requirements will keep your reviewers happy and can increase credit achievement rates.
Templates
Construction Waste Management Template Download
Having a good construction waste management plan is the first step towards earning MRc5 Construction Waste Management in LEED v4.1. First of all, it is required for the pre-requisite under MRp2 to have a construction waste management plan.
Indoor Air Quality Template Download
Developing and implementing an indoor air quality (IAQ) management plan for the construction and preoccupancy phases of the building is required to earn the IEQc3 credit – and this template is a great place to start!
LEED v4.1 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 – or you can download our free submittal cover sheet template for submitting your LEED v4.1 product data.
Flush Out Kit
During construction, various materials and processes can introduce airborne pollutants such as dust, particulates, and off-gassing from building materials. Implementing flushing out procedures during this phase helps to mitigate the accumulation of these pollutants, ensuring that the indoor environment remains healthier and more comfortable for both construction workers and future occupants.
ESG Metrics Worksheet
Benchmarking is a critical part of implementing ESG in your organization, because you need to know where you are before you can determine where you need to go. We’ve all heard the phrase, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” and that is absolutely the case when it comes to ESG.
General Contractor Submittal Example
To make your construction business shine, you gotta know what these submittals are, why they matter, the basics of a good template, what goes into them, and how to make the whole process easier.
LEED Credit Cheat Sheets
LEED Low Emitting Materials Cheat Sheet
Access the Low Emitting Cheat Sheet with Green Badger's recommendations for which categories to track to earn the LEED v4/v4.1 Low Emitting Materials credit.
LEED Construction Activity Pollution Prevention Cheat Sheet
This is the only LEED construction-related prerequisite. You have to achieve this or your project cannot earn certification; it's required on all LEED projects.
LEED Construction Waste Management Plan Cheat Sheet
Access the cheat sheet to see Green Badger's recommendations for how to earn the LEED v4/v4.1 Construction Waste Management credit.
LEED Indoor Air Quality Management Cheat Sheet
Access the Indoor Air Quality Management Cheat Sheet with Green Badger's recommendations for which categories to track to earn this LEED v4/v4.1 credit.
LEED Indoor Air Quality Assessment Cheat Sheet
Access the cheat sheet for Green Badger's recommendations for which path to take for earning IEQc4 Indoor Air Quality Assessment for LEED v4.1.
Green Badger Blog
Green Badger’s LEED Resources for Construction Project Teams
A comprehensive overview of Green Badger’s LEED Resources for construction projects teams to utilize from site work to commissioning.
Green Badger Becomes First Construction Tech SaaS Company To Receive Just Label
Joins Growing Support In The AEC Industry For Measuring Commitment to Sustainability And Ethical Business Practices SAVANNAH, Georgia — Sept 17, 2024 — Green Badger, the leading SaaS developer for managing sustainable construction, announced it has received a Just 2.0 label from The International Living Future Institute (ILFI), further validating the company’s focus on sustainability…
Sustainability compliance has never been this easy.
Learn more about how you can eliminate the headache of LEED paperwork and streamline construction ESG tracking. Schedule a personal demonstration with one of our LEED gurus to see the impact Green Badger can have on your green building compliance.