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Top 3 Strategies to Design and Build Eco-Friendly Facilities in 2024

As seen on facilitiesmanagementadvisor.com The need for new buildings and facilities is soaring, buoyed by surging demand for everything from manufacturing to clean energy infrastructure and the triumvirate of legislation making construction more cost-effective, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act. While…

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ESG Resources for Sustainable Construction

Are you looking for a comprehensive overview of Green Badger’s ESG Resources? You’re in the right place! We’ve compiled a list of all the ESG resources for sustainable construction that your project teams need for success. ESG eBooks: ESG Templates: ESG Recorded Webinars: ESG Blogs

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Specifications & Submittals

This session focuses on the importance of specification content in Division 1 as well as other technical sections, and how the requirements outlined can be improved from standard industry templates commonly used as starting points for projects.

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Specification and Submittals – The Keys to Project Success

Project specifications are a pretty important piece of the project documents, and are critical to ensuring sustainability goals will be met. Unfortunately, there are way too many generic specifications that don’t set up the project team for success. And that’s what they are supposed to do, right? Specifications don’t have to be generic – where…

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Green Badger’s 2023 Annual Sustainability Report

2023 was a busy year for Green Badger – we launched our full ESG platform, spoke at events across the country, produced some great educational resources including the General Contractors Roadmap to ESG implementation as well as a number of product guides, cheat sheets and templates to help our project teams and the entire green…

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This Badger Packs a Byte

People in construction are busy. If I pop onto a jobsite, I don’t see too many people twiddling their fingers (though if you’re using Green Badger already to manage LEED, you’ve definitely got a bit of extra time in the day!). While I’m super proud of all the awesome FREE resources we provide the industry,…

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Cheat Sheets

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. DOWNLOAD LEED Construction Activity Pollution Prevention Cheat Sheet This is the only LEED construction-related prerequisite. You have to achieve this or…

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Sourcing Raw Materials – Extended Producer Responsibility Programs

The environmental impacts of landfill waste are rapidly escalating, and the building industry is a major contributor responsible for adding millions of tons of construction and demolition debris each year. To help counter this, there are five avenues for credits that encourage collaboration between general contractors, haulers, and manufacturers to prevent landfill accumulation. In this…

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Streamlining Sustainability: How Green Badger Enhances Your WELL Journey

Lauren Breckenridge, LEED APSustainability Associate at Green Badger In an age when sustainability and human well-being are at the forefront of global concerns, the construction industry faces significant challenges in reducing its environmental impact and creating healthier spaces for occupants. However, innovative solutions like Green Badger software, LEED and the WELL Building Standard are leading…

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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!

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BPDO Optimization 101

There are credits in LEED that are no brainers, and then are credits that seem like no one can achieve. Up until the latest updates to LEED v4.1, the tough to achieve credits were the EPD Optimization and the Material Ingredient Optimization credits that fell under the Building Product and Disclosure Optimization (BPDO)  group. Fortunately,…

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Greenbuild 2022 San Francisco – What you missed

If you missed the event this year, Green Badger is here to provide you with a Greenbuild 2022 Recap of sessions, key takeaways, and notes for next year. 

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