This is the 4th Step in our 12 Steps to a Successful LEED Project series.  Please read the following and let us know what you think - feel free to comment or inquire through  our website.

4.      Record, Record, Record

This goes along with what was mentioned last week about sharing the successes we incur in life.  For any LEED project, you, me, and everyone should know about what happened and why it was great.  That includes the USGBC.  They want to know as well and maybe you will get some bonus exposure from it.

Beyond that however we want to be able to make the case about costs and the more records we have, the more power a sustainability push can be.  Costs are the bottom line-ROI, NPV, NOI, and IRR are often used to describe the financial success of an asset and while we are moving toward Triple Bottom Line thinking, we need to document how that thinking helped the true “bottom line.”  We can use those tools to restructure how financial institutions, REITs, and Developers think about sustainability – so please Record – then SHARE!

The EBS Team