You know we love beer. Boy, does the Badger love beer…but we really love ice cold beer, and bet you do to! That’s why we’ve got the Green Badger koozies,…
Category: LEED Documentation
So we’ve talked in the past about successfully documenting IEQc3.1, but still see the same challenges week after week. Here’s what should happen and what does happen. Should happen –…
Greenbuild is over, the holidays are upon us, and the clock is officially ticking on LEED v4 becoming the one and only option for new LEED projects. Just a short…
197 pages… I’ve read books shorter than 197 pages. What was it – the latest cutting edge green building journal? The newest tweener vampire book? The beer list at Hops…
You know, we give a presentation called Stopping Surprises, Managing the LEED Construction Process (which is GBCI approved if you need CEs!) a good bit, and one of the tips…
Why can’t all product submitals be this nice? Screw it – more Waxed Hanging Baskets on every LEED job! Who is with me???
There are some LEED credits that are easy to implement and hard to document, some that are hard to implement but easy to document, and some weird combination in between.…
In an ideal (LEED-based) world, all products would come with a giant stamp right on them, or on the first page of a submittal, with big bold wording stating things like VOC content, FSC number or recycled percentage. For better or for worse, that certainly isn’t the case. What I am amazed with, however, is how some submittals can contain absolutely zero relevant data. I mean, I know people don’t like extra paperwork, but is the answer really just forward on as much crap as you can pull together? Unfortunately, this happens more often than naught!
With all due respect to Ace of Base and their chart topper I Saw the Sign, I don’t think they were picturing a LEED construction project when they wrote it.…