When gathering certificates, data, and LEED documentation for Low Emitting Materials (LEM), most are straightforward. However, carpets are certified for emissions by their yarn and their backing. If your subcontractor provides a LEED cover sheet that gives the collection, product name, number (World Woven Collection, WW965, Autumn Warp), more than likely, it isn’t data you can…
Green Badger’s esg platform M/WBE Minority and Women Business Entity (M/WBE) and local participation among a project’s subcontractor team is a growing requirement on many construction sites. Green Badger provides a user-friendly reporting mechanism to track subcontractor M/WBE participation and local labor use. See the Platform Live M/WBE Tracking and Reporting Subcontractors who fall under…
Last month, Green Badger and Jenn Taranto from STO Building Group gave a presentation on ESG in construction, covering important topics. The Construction Managers Association of America (CMAA) organized Focus 24, held in the vibrant city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 10-12, 2024. CMAA Focus 24 serves as a premier platform providing construction professionals with…
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.
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.
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…
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…
Having completed construction in the fall of 2022 and gone through the LEED certification review process to earn Silver LEED Certification, Carbice’s new facility in the Lee + White building in Atlanta, GA is a testament to the power of collaboration to achieve sustainability goals during a challenging historical moment. As an interior fit-out project…
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,…
Earning LEED points toward the Sourcing of Raw Materials credit is a hard credit for most teams to earn. There are five ways to achieve contributions and Green Badger finds it’s best to use the entire menu of options to reach at least 15% of total materials costs to earn 1 point, or at least…
There are five distinct avenues for achieving contributions towards the Sourcing of Raw Materials credit for LEED. This credit poses a significant challenge for most LEED project teams–reaching at least 15% of total materials costs for one point or at least 30% to receive two points–but Green Badger is here to help. This can be…
Contractors COMMITMENT Green Badger’s ESG Portal – Current Alignment with the Contractor’s Commitment Green Badger’s ESG portal has everything you need to track and report your progress towards the Contractor’s Commitment. See the Platform Live Download Our Contractor’s Commitment Alignment Document Green Badger is your comprehensive solution, designed to empower project teams of all experience…
