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
Webinar: Carbon Emissions Legislation – What GCs Need to Know
Join our expert-led webinar to explore how carbon emissions legislation, the IRA, and Buy Clean impact GCs, sustainability, and compliance. Learn how industry leaders are navigating federal requirements, streamlining reporting, and integrating sustainable materials, plus get your questions answered in a live Q&A!
On-Demand Webinars
February 2025 LEED Construction User Group
Did you miss our February 2025 LEED Construction User Group meeting? Good news! You can watch the recording here.
October 2024 LEED Construction User Group
Register now! Bring all of your LEED questions and headaches to our October 2024 LEED Construction User Group.
Urban Green Council: Building Insights for Industry Leaders
Are you a building or construction professional looking to sharpen your skills in high-performance building practices? Don’t miss our upcoming webinar showcasing Urban Green Council and two of their key courses: GPRO Operations & Maintenance Essentials and GPRO Construction Management.
Templates
LEED Spec Template for Green Badger
Unlock the blueprint to construction success by downloading our specifications document—where every nail, bolt, and beam is a pixel in the masterpiece of your project. It’s the ultimate toolkit for turning “I think I can” into “I absolutely nailed it!”
Green Jobsite Signage
Signage can be a powerful tool to remind everyone on the site that their actions have an impact on the overall sustainability of the construction site. Hanging signs in different areas can help teams remember the sustainability practices. Our kit includes signs in both English and Spanish.
Anti-Idling Policy Template
If your company does not already have an anti-idling policy in place, you can use our sample anti-idling policy and modify it as needed to reduce emissions on-site. The policy includes guidance, exceptions, and how it can be monitored and enforced.
Wellness Plan Template
A key component of improving sustainability on construction is creating a jobsite wellness plan to give your project teams the space to think about different things that affect health and wellness. This sample jobsite wellness plan includes an outline, as well as some examples of health and wellness tactics that can be implemented.
Green Jobsite Kit
This green jobsite kit include a wellness plan template, an anti-idling policy template, downloadable jobsite signs, and a guide for best practices.
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
CALGreen Title 24 – Embodied Carbon Requirements
Did you hear the news? California has updated the Green Building Code with additional embodied carbon requirements, making building codes even more complicated and likely to impact your next new build. These requirements went into effect July 1, 2024. Refer to the information below for a requirement breakdown. What is Embodied Carbon? CALGreen Title 24,…
Green Badger’s Sustainability Impact Soars in 2024
Latest Sustainability Report Highlights Exceeding Customers’ LEED Goals SAVANNAH, Georgia — March 18, 2025 — Green Badger, the leading SaaS developer for managing sustainable construction, released its 2024 Sustainability Report today and announced that 80 percent of the top 25 Green Construction firms now use its software to streamline and automate LEED certification and ESG…
Delivering Sustainable Construction Projects – Planning for Success
Delivering sustainable construction projects is not always an easy process, but there are key steps owners and developers can take to help ensure their goals are achieved on time and within budget. Key steps can be taken well in advance of (or at least early in) the design and construction process and include sustainability construction…
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.
