Specifications Support for Health and Transparency

BuildingGreen’s product vetting services can save you countless hours and set you up for success on future projects.

Is your team working on a LEED v4 or WELL project? 

Finding products for these projects is daunting, and even when you find products you believe will meet the requirements, you have to know exactly what to look for for make sure that they actually do.

We can support you in reconciling the many factors of product selection: potentially toxic ingredients, carbon footprint, aesthetics, cost, certification credit eligibility, and so on.

Here's how BuildingGreen's consulting team can help:

Save time: It takes dozens or hundreds of hours to check for compliant products in all the different categories. We’ve already done much of that work, and have learned where to look and what to watch out in each category.

Reduce cost: For a fraction of what it would cost you, we can provide you with your own master list of compliant and preferred products, based on the products you’re already specifying. That master list will not only meet your needs on the current project, but provide you with a tool you can keep returning to in future projects. 

Provide a long-lasting tool: If you want a tool that can be used for future projects, we can work with you generate visually compelling posters and PDFs that provide at-a-glance guidance on what to look for in each product category, based on your own priorities and preferred vendors.

Ensure success: We can also review your specifications to ensure that you’ve the right clauses in the right places to get the products and submittals you need from the contractors, and that your installation guidance is consistent with the selected products.

Track record of success

We have helped other companies by:

1.  Generating a master list based on their standard specifications

2. Adding alternative products to that list; products that perform the same, are generally just as cost-effective and available, and have the disclosure documentation or other attributes that qualify them to meet the LEED or WELL requirement.

What our customers have to say:

“Nadav was instrumental in making material vetting an integral part of our design process for our LEED Platinum project for the University of Maryland.  His measured approach helped us make important decisions as they relate to prioritizing material selection – Getting the biggest benefit from what is often a limited pool of resources.” - Heather Gayle Holdridge, LEED Fellow, Lake|Flato Architects