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Pursuing sustainable building certifications like LEED, WELL etc; involves clear and effective collaboration between the architectural firm and the general contractor.
At the earliest design stages, sustainability requirements can often times be overlooked, outdated or even non-existent in some areas of the material specs. The outcome of this are materials being procured that risk meeting the sustainability certifications credit/concept thresholds for points.
This along with growing pains of the rapid growth of sustainability certification projects and the ever changing certification requirements, has created a very challenging environment for both general contractors and architects alike.
From an architectural standpoint, often times the Construction Administration (CA) stage of design requires additional oversight in regards to the sustainability requirements of the contractor in respect to the projects sustainability certification in pursuit.
Requiring additional time and energy on the oversight and review of the documentation submitted by the contractor and staying current on the latest LEED, WELL versions, as well as keeping current on project standing and the tracking of credits/concepts along the way.
Green Gecko’s architectural sustainability services not only ease the burden, on an already over stretched design team, but has proven to optimize projects beyond the status quo, gaining more potential points in the process.
How it Works
Green Gecko offers specialty sustainability services to meet the architectural firms specific project needs. Whether a project requires material submittal reviews, documentation creation, or if the project needs a LEED AP or WELL AP to manage the entire Construction Administration (CA) process. Green Gecko can meet any services need, large or small.
Please reach out with any questions about how Green Gecko can meet your service needs.
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FAQ
What are some of the common challenges for architectural firms in regards to the sustainability Construction Administration (CA) process?
As LEED and other sustainable building certification numbers continue to grow at an exponential rate, it produces a number of growing pains in the industry while trying to keep pace with the constantly evolving sustainability certification standards.
The construction industry in its present state is fairly new to the sustainability certifications like LEED, WELL. Often times the sustainability responsibilities are handled from an already overextended project manager or project coordinator on the project who is either just learning the certification requirements or struggling to piece together the nuances of each credit and efficiently navigate the process.
Where this impacts the architectural firms, is when the sustainability certification management process falls under the scope of the architectural firm. The oversight and review of submitted documentation requires additional resources, time and effort and in many cases requires training of the contractor and their trade partners in the process of what is considered compliant materials and products and how to produce compliant supporting documentation and how to track each credit.
SOLUTION:
Green Gecko Sustainability Inc, has the prepared training resources and expertise to educate, guide and review all documentation for the process for the construction team and there trade partners. Ensuring that credit tracking and documentation are submitted with the highest level of quality assurance.
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How can this reduce costs to the project?
Depending on the specifics of each project and the sustainability certification level of in pursuit. (ex. LEED Platinum, Gold, Silver) The project team will plan and coordinate to pursue a certain level of points and credits to achieve the desired certification level. Each credit and the points associated to the credit, will incur some level of cost.
Often times after submission, a credit may be reviewed to require additional measures to meet the credit threshold or may prove to not be feasible at all. In these instances, the decision between trying meet the current targeted credit or to swap credits to achieve the point elsewhere must be made.
Depending on the “safety buffer” of points currently on pace for after submission will highly effect the projects decision. If there is enough of a buffer, the credit may just be abandoned, but if the project risks missing the desired certification level due to it’s review. It usually involves swapping credits, that weren’t planned for. These credits can be very costly and time consuming and will require additional coordination and resources.
SOLUTION:
Green gecko optimizes all the contractors credits with an emphasis on receiving exemplary performance points and “low hanging fruit” points that incur very little costs to the overall project. This allows for a healthy “safety buffer” and allows for room for losing some credits during the submission process.
Green Gecko’s services are designed to “bridge the gap” between contractor and designer. Having experience from both sides of the industry provides a unique understanding of what areas of the process often get overlooked or require additional planning. This catches potential risks before they arrive and prevents any costly “rework” before it arises.
Green Gecko’s complete management of the contractors credits, basically “kills two bird with one stone” by producing and creating the compliant documentation to the standard that will not require additional review from the design team, thus vastly reducing the burden on both the contractor and architectural firm involved in the project.
When is the best time to involve Green Gecko in your project?
Early as possible, in deisgn stage
-never too late-
Can join at any stage and provide services to meet your specific needs
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FAQ
What are some of the common challenges for architectural firms in regards to the sustainability Construction Administration (CA) process?
As LEED and other sustainable building certification numbers continue to grow at an exponential rate, it produces a number of growing pains in the industry while trying to keep pace with the constantly evolving sustainability certification standards.
The construction industry in its present state is fairly new to the sustainability certifications like LEED, WELL. Often times the sustainability responsibilities are handled from an already overextended project manager or project coordinator on the project who is either just learning the certification requirements or struggling to piece together the nuances of each credit and efficiently navigate the process.
Where this impacts the architectural firms, is when the sustainability certification management process falls under the scope of the architectural firm. The oversight and review of submitted documentation requires additional resources, time and effort and in many cases requires training of the contractor and their trade partners in the process of what is considered compliant materials and products and how to produce compliant supporting documentation and how to track each credit.
SOLUTION:
Green Gecko Sustainability Inc, has the prepared training resources and expertise to educate, guide and review all documentation for the process for the construction team and there trade partners. Ensuring that credit tracking and documentation are submitted with the highest level of quality assurance.
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How can this reduce costs to the project?
Depending on the specifics of each project and the sustainability certification level of in pursuit. (ex. LEED Platinum, Gold, Silver) The project team will plan and coordinate to pursue a certain level of points and credits to achieve the desired certification level. Each credit and the points associated to the credit, will incur some level of cost.
Often times after submission, a credit may be reviewed to require additional measures to meet the credit threshold or may prove to not be feasible at all. In these instances, the decision between trying meet the current targeted credit or to swap credits to achieve the point elsewhere must be made.
Depending on the “safety buffer” of points currently on pace for after submission will highly effect the projects decision. If there is enough of a buffer, the credit may just be abandoned, but if the project risks missing the desired certification level due to it’s review. It usually involves swapping credits, that weren’t planned for. These credits can be very costly and time consuming and will require additional coordination and resources.
SOLUTION:
Green gecko optimizes all the contractors credits with an emphasis on receiving exemplary performance points and “low hanging fruit” points that incur very little costs to the overall project. This allows for a healthy “safety buffer” and allows for room for losing some credits during the submission process.
Green Gecko’s services are designed to “bridge the gap” between contractor and designer. Having experience from both sides of the industry provides a unique understanding of what areas of the process often get overlooked or require additional planning. This catches potential risks before they arrive and prevents any costly “rework” before it arises.
Green Gecko’s complete management of the contractors credits, basically “kills two bird with one stone” by producing and creating the compliant documentation to the standard that will not require additional review from the design team, thus vastly reducing the burden on both the contractor and architectural firm involved in the project.
When is the best time to involve Green Gecko in your project?
Early as possible, in deisgn stage
-never too late-
Can join at any stage and provide services to meet your specific needs
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