Green Badger can help you with projects under LEED 2009, v4 or v4.1 rating systems for BD+C or ID+C. We currently do not support LEED for Existing Buildings, LEED for Homes, or LEED for Neighborhood Development.
Requirements, strategies and best practices for earning LEED Sourcing of Raw Materials for v4.1.
Access this on-demand webinar where Green Badger CEO and LEED Fellow, Tommy Linstroth, walks you through all of the construction credits you’ll need to handle if you’re tasked with managing a LEED project.
Highlighting building sealants that will help you earn LEED v4 low-emitting materials credits.
A simple way to help manage construction waste on-site is to have clear dumpster signage that labels the recycling dumpsters with what material goes where.
by Lauren Breckenridge, LEED APSustainability Associate at Green Badger Somewhere in California right now, a project engineer on a 55,000-square-foot tilt-up is Googling “what is a GWP limit” three weeks before a submittal deadline. Here’s how to make sure that’s not your team. CALGreen’s embodied carbon requirements now apply to any nonresidential project of 50,000 square…
Every year, many architecture firms approach the AIA Materials Pledge the same way they approach taxes. They know the reporting deadline is coming, but the work doesn’t really begin until reporting season arrives. By then, product documentation is scattered across project folders, manufacturer websites have changed, substitutions have happened during construction, and project teams are…
By Kristin Brubaker Head of Sustainable Construction Services If you have ever managed LEED documentation on a construction project, you know the drill. You send out a friendly request for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). You wait. You send a reminder. You wait some more. You get a few PDFs, half of them are the wrong…
By Kristin Brubaker Head of Sustainable Construction Services The green building industry is accelerating, and the conversations happening at green building events right now reflect that urgency. Last night, the USGBC New Jersey chapter hosted its Transformation event at Lord Abbott’s headquarters in Jersey City, one of the most fitting venues imaginable. The office is…
by Lauren Richardson Sustainability Manager at Green Badger How LEED v5 Materials Credits connect to the circular economy movement, reshaping the region A circular economy is a system designed to keep materials in use for as long as possible rather than discarding them. In the traditional model, things follow a straight line: you take raw…
by Lauren Breckenridge, LEED AP Sustainability Associate at Green Badger Last week I had the opportunity to attend Engineering News-Record Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference, GWIC for short, in San Diego, and I am still thinking about it days later, which is honestly the best sign that a conference was worth attending. A Room Full of…
If you caught one of our working group sessions on the next version of the Contractor’s Commitment at this year’s USGBC California conference, you already know the conversation is heating up. If you missed it, we’ve got the recap. The short version: sustainability reporting is getting more rigorous, but the changes coming in Version 3.0…
