LEED & Sustainable Construction Resources
Access a comprehensive collection of educational resources from Green Badger, including guides, webinars, templates, and eBooks, to help general contractors navigate and document LEED construction credits.
The Ultimate Guide to LEED Construction Credits for General Contractors
The most comprehensive educational resource for general contractors, filled with practical guidance on how to achieve LEED construction credits.
Upcoming Live Webinars
2026 October LEED Construction User Group Webinar
Wed, October 28, 2026 | 2:00 PM EDT Live Webinar: Monthly LEED Construction User Group Attend this free live session Join our expert-led live webinar! Stop Guessing LEED. Get Clear Answers from Experts. WHY THIS…
Templates
LEED v5 Submittal Cover Sheet
Green Badger’s free LEED v5 Materials Submittal Coversheet simplifies project documentation by organizing all key product and sustainability information needed for LEED v5 compliance in one place.
Indoor Air Quality Management Plan | LEED v5 Template
Use the plan template as a framework to fill out and to determine whether you are on course to meet the requirements for the credit.
Construction Waste Management Plan | LEED v5 Template
Use the plan template as a framework to fill out and to determine whether you are on course to meet the requirements for the credit.
LEED Credit Cheat Sheets
Low-Emitting Materials ID+C | LEED v5 Cheat Sheet
Access recommendations for which categories to track to earn the LEED v5 ID+C Low-Emitting Materials credit.
Low-Emitting Materials BD+C | LEED v5 Cheat Sheet
Access recommendations for which categories to track to earn the LEED v5 BD+C Low-Emitting Materials credit.
Construction & Demolition Waste Diversion | LEED v5 Cheat Sheet
Access recommendations for which categories to track to earn the LEED v5 Construction & Demolition Waste Diversion credit.
Ebooks
LEED Construction Readiness Assessment
LEED Construction Readiness Assessment Share your LEED scorecard, and we’ll tell you exactly which LEED points you can realistically achieve before you spend months documenting them. The report will review 2 Prerequisites and 6 Credits…
Guide to AIA Materials Pledge Reporting
Ebook Download The Complete Guide to AIA Materials Pledge Reporting A practical, step-by-step workflow for managing AIA Materials Pledge documentation with Green Badger. Learn more about the AIA Materials Pledge functionality in Green Badger. Download…
Concrete Submittal for a LEED Project eBook
This eBook shows how concrete materials and related products can earn LEED credits and guides contractors through documentation like EPDs, recycled content, and VOC compliance. It also offers tools, templates, and brand references to simplify LEED submittals.
On-Demand Webinars
August 2024 LEED Construction User Group
Watch now! This is a recorded session of the August 2024 LEED Construction User Group.
Leveraging Green Badger: A Guide for Construction Project Managers
This webinar covers how to read a LEED scorecard, best practices for gathering data from subcontractors, and how to use Green Badger resources for planning, tracking, and reporting project goals.
June 2024 LEED Construction User Group
Watch now! This is a recorded session of the June 2024 LEED Construction User Group.
Green Badger Blog
From Resilience Commitment to Project-Level Action
The new AIA Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Pledge challenges architecture firms to make resilience a more consistent part of their practice. LEED v5 helps translate that commitment into project-level requirements, including the required Climate Resilience Assessment. Green Badger’s free Signals tool gives teams a faster way to find relevant location-specific data and begin that…
Meet Site Signal and Water Signal: Two Free Tools to Make LEED v5 Planning Easier
LEED v5, the newest version of the LEED rating system, introduces new requirements for green building projects, which can mean more data to find, more calculations to perform, and more information for project teams to manage. But your team shouldn’t have to spend more time tracking down data and dealing with spreadsheets just to get…
Stop Chasing Submittals: Turnkey LEED Construction Consulting for General Contractors
By Kristin BrubakerHead of Sustainable Construction Services LEED construction consulting is outside expert support that owns the credits earned during the construction phase of certification, so your project team doesn’t have to. A turnkey scope means the LEED consultant writes the required plans, reviews every submittal, maintains the LEED calculators, and uploads the final package…
