LEED

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City Wide Emerald Green
LEED EB MO Credits Solutions
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City Wide Emerald Green

• LEED certification
• How can we help a building acquire the points
  needed for certification?
• What follows is a listing of the new LEED EB MO
  program. It shows the individual credits, some we
  can deliver ourselves, and some the building
  cant get without our help
• Use this as an aid to differentiate yourself
  from the competition and gain a competitive edge

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirements
• Sustainable Sites
• Credit 2 Building Exterior Hardscape
  Management/1 Point
• Intent
• Encourage an environmentally building exterior
  and hardscape maintenance plan
• Requirement
• Plan must address all of the following areas of
  building and grounds as applicable
• Maintenance Equipment
• Snow Ice removal
• Cleaning of bldg exterior
• Paints Sealants used on exterior
• Cleaning of sidewalks, pavement and other
  hardscape

• Potential Strategies
• Emerald Choice can provide
• Emerald Choice provides Green Seal certified
  cleaners for exterior cleaning
• A low impact site and building exterior
  maintenance plan

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirements
• WE Credit 2 1-5 Points Additional Indoor
  Plumbing Fixture and Fitting Efficiency
• Intent
• Maximize indoor plumbing efficiencies to reduce
  burden on municipal water supply
• Requirement
• 10 Reduction 1 point
• 15 Reduction 2 points
• 20 Reduction 3 points
• 25 Reduction 4 points
• 30 Reduction 5 points
• Reduction based on LEED OM
• baseline measurements

• Potential Strategies
• Use of automatic controls
• Dual Flush toilets
• Waterless Urinals
• Automatic Flush
• Automatic Faucets

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• MR Credit 6 1 Point Solid waste management
  Waste stream audit
• Intent
• Facilitate the reduction of ongoing waste by
  building occupants and building operations.
• Requirement
• Conduct a waste stream audit of ongoing waste to
  establish current building waste baseline that
  identifies the types of waste making up the waste
  stream and amounts of each

• Potential Strategies
• Use of LEED template for waste stream audit.
• Reduce waste with recycling and work station
  bins.

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• MR Credit 7 1 point Solid waste management
  Ongoing consumables
• Intent
• Maintain a waste reduction and recycling program
  that addresses items with low cost per unit that
  are regularly used and replaces
• Requirement
• Reuse/Recycle 50 1point
• Collect Recycle 80 of batteries used in
  building

• Possible Strategies
• Develop a waste reduction and recycling program
  that addresses these low cost regularly used
  items
• Personal recycling bins at occupants desks
• Glass cups used instead of plastic

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Prerequisite Requirement
• IEQ Prerequisite 3 Green Cleaning Policy
• Intent
• Reduce exposure of occupants to potentially
  hazardous chemical contaminants
• Requirement
• Establish a written green cleaning policy for
  building, including IEQ 3.3 3.4

• Possible Strategies
• SOPs of cleaning systems and procedures
• Purchase sustainable cleaning materials,
  equipment, paper, trash bags and hand sanitizers
• Guidelines for safe handling and storage of
  chemicals
• Staff training, Right to Know, Bloodborne
  standard, dispensing equipment etc

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• IEQ Credit 2.1 1 Point Occupant comfort/Survey
• Intent
• Assess occupants comfort as it relates to
  thermal, acoustics, building cleanliness etc
• Requirement
• Implement occupant survey to collect data on
  thermal comfort, IAQ, lighting levels, building
  cleanliness, and other comfort issues.

• Possible Strategies
• LEED reference guide for survey ideas, and
  guidelines.
• Green Seal cleaning chemicals used for building
  interior
• Green cleaning SOPs

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• IEQ Credit 3.1 1Point Green Cleaning High
  Performance Cleaning program
• Intent
• Reduce exposure of building occupants to
  potentially hazardous chemical
• Requirement
• Have in place over the performance period a
  high-performance cleaning program, supported by
  green cleaning policy (IEQ pre-requisite 3)

• Possible Strategies
• SOPs and training of staff
• 3rd party certification for cleaning chemicals,
  machines
• Use of cleaning equipment that reduces impacts on
  IAQ
• Occupant feedback
• Continue improvement strategies, procedures etc

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirements
• EQ Credit 3.2 1 point Green Cleaning Custodial
  Effectiveness Assessment
• Intent
• Reduce exposure of occupants to potentially
  hazardous chemical and other contaminants by
  implementing, managing and auditing cleaning
  procedures and processes.
• Requirement
• Conduct an audit based on APPAs Custodial
  Staffing Guidelines to determine appearance level
  of facility
• 1- point score 3 or less

• Possible Strategies
• Develop a team to conduct a walk through
  inspection of sample rooms in the building to
  evaluate effectiveness of the cleaning program.
• Emerald Green cleaning program and SOPs
• Remote Tec
• Implement steps to improve areas that fall below
  standard

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City Wide Emerald Green

• APPA 5 Levels of Clean
• Level 1- Orderly Spotlessness
• Floors and base moldings shine and/or are bright
  and clean. There is no buildup in corners or
  along walls. All vertical and horizontal surfaces
  have a freshly cleaned or polished appearance and
  have no accumulation of dust, dirt, marks,
  streaks or fingerprints. Lights all work and
  fixtures are clean. Washrooms and shower fixtures
  and tile gleam and are odor free. Supplies are
  adequate. Trash containers and pencil sharpeners
  hold only daily waste, and are clean and odor
  free.

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City Wide Emerald Green

• APPA 5 Levels of Clean
• Level 2 Ordinary Tidiness
• Floors and base moldings shine and/or bright and
  clean. There is no buildup in corners or along
  walls, but there can be two days worth of dust,
  stains, or streaks. All vertical and horizontal
  surfaces are clean, but marks dust, smudges and
  fingerprints are noticeable upon close
  observation. Lights all work and fixtures are
  clean. Washrooms and shower fixtures and tile
  gleam and are odor free. Supplies are adequate.
  Trash containers and pencil sharpeners hold only
  daily waste, are clean and odor free

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City Wide Emerald Green

• APPA 5 Levels of Clean
• Level 3 Casual Inattention
• Floors are swept or vacuumed clean, but upon
  close observation there can be stains. A buildup
  of dirt and/or floor finish in corners and along
  walls can be seen. There are dull spots and/or
  matted carpet in traffic lanes. There are streaks
  or splashes on base moldings. All vertical and
  horizontal surfaces have obvious dust, dirt,
  marks, smudges and fingerprints. Lamps all work
  and fixtures are clean. Trash containers and
  pencil sharpeners hold only daily waste, are
  clean and odor free

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City Wide Emerald Green

• APPA 5 Levels of Clean
• Level 4 Moderate Dinginess
• Floors are swept or vacuumed clean, but are
  dull, dingy and stained. There is a noticeable
  buildup of dirt and/or floor finish in corners
  and along walls. All horizontal and vertical
  surfaces have conspicuous dust, smudges,
  fingerprints and marks. Lamp fixtures are dirty
  and some lamps ( up to 5 percent ) are burned
  out. Trash containers and pencil sharpeners have
  old trash and shavings. They are stained and
  marked. Trash containers smell sour.

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City Wide Emerald Green

• APPA 5 Levels of Clean
• Level 5 Unkempt Neglect
• Floors and carpets are dull, dirty, dingy
  scuffed and/or matted. There is a conspicuous
  build up of old dirt and/or floor finish in
  corners and along walls. Base molding is dirty,
  stained, and streaked. Gum, stains, dirt, dust
  balls and trash are evident. All vertical and
  horizontal surfaces have major accumulations of
  dust, dirt, smudges and fingerprints, all of
  which will be difficult to remove. Lack of
  attention is obvious. Light fixtures are dirty,
  with dust balls and flies. Many lamps ( 5 percent
  ) are burned out.

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirements
• EQ Credit 3.3 1 point Green Cleaning
  Sustainable cleaning products and materials
• Intent
• Reduce environmental impacts of cleaning products
  disposable janitor products trash bags
• Requirement
• Implement sustainable purchasing for cleaning
  materials and disposable paper products and trash
  bags. Used by in-house or outside service
  provider
• One point awarded for each 30 of the total
  annual purchases (dollars) of following products
• GS 37 for cleaners
• GS 40 for hard floor care
• GS 9 Napkins Towels/ EPA CPG
• GS 1 Tissue Paper
• GS 41 Hand Soaps

• Possible Strategies
• Purchase products and materials that meet one or
  more of the specific criteria

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• IEQ 3.4 1 point Green cleaning Sustainable
  cleaning equipment
• Intent
• Reduce exposure of building occupants
  maintenance personnel to hazardous chemical, and
  particulates that adversely impact air quality.
• Requirement
• Implement a policy for the use of janitorial
  equipment that aid in the reduction in building
  contaminants. Equipment must meet the following
  requirement

• Possible Strategies
• CRI certified equipment
• Extraction equipment meets CRI seal of approval
  for deep cleaning extractors.
• Automatic scrubbers equipped with variable speed
  feed pump
• Gel batteries
• Log kept for all powered equipment to document
  the date of equipment purchase and all repair
  activities, mfg spec sheets for all equipment
• Remote Tec

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Possible Strategies
• Entryway systems, grills, mats, grates, etc
• Design exterior, stone, brick or concrete
  surfaces.
• Green cleaning chemicals
• Low maintenance vegetation
• Plant selection on an IPM approach to eliminate
  pesticides.
• Water spigot and electrical outlet for
  maintenance

• Credit Requirement
• EQ 3.5 1 Point Green Cleaning Entryway Systems
• Intent
• Reduce building occupants maintenance personnel
  to hazardous chemical and particulates that
  adversely impact air quality
• Requirement
• Use entryway systems to reduce amount of dirt,
  dust etc entering building. Must be at least 10
  feet of matting

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• IEQ Credit 3.6 1 Point Green Cleaning IPM
• Integrate best management (IPM)
• Intent
• Reduce exposure to building occupants and
  maintenance to hazardous chemical and particular
  contaminants
• Requirement
• Develop and implement an IPM
• Plan shall use least toxic chemicals
• Address circumstances when application of
  pesticides is needed.

• Possible Strategies
• Utilize IPM
• Stringent cleaning and sanitizing procedures
• Green Seal chemicals

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City Wide Emerald Green

• Credit Requirement
• Innovation in High Performance Operations
• 1-4 points
• Provide documentation of each proposed innovation
  credit. Including a description of the
  achievement, the additional environmental
  benefits delivered and the performance
  measurements used to document the additional
  environmental benefits delivered over the
  performance period.

• Possible Strategies
• Emerald Choice Program can provide
• Documented training programs and procedures.
• Remote Tec documentation

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City Wide Emerald Green

• LEED EB MO Levels
• Certified 40-49 points
• Silver 50-59 points
• Gold 60-79 points
• Platinum 80 points
• With this program we can help you attain up to 15
  
• points, more with the innovative credit. Almost
  30
• of the credits needed for basic certification.