Course: GFM 101 Fundamentals of Green Facilities Management

Reading

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Green Product Directories and Specification Guidelines

Please click on the links as they are part of the reading assignment.

Green Product Directories

This information is used to profile individual products from specific manufacturers. Green Material Directories provide listings of available products (typically organized by CSI Sections) with the environmental attributes claimed by the manufacturers.

Examples include:

Oikos® Green Building Source—Green Product Information
GreenSpec™—The Environmental Building News Product Directory

Specification Guidelines

Once a green material has been evaluated and selected for a project, it is important to include clear and binding specification language in the construction documents. As previously noted, green product standards can sometimes be used to define the critical environmental criteria for a specific product. In addition, a number of green specification guidelines are starting to appear, which provide sample specification language that can be adapted to different projects. Current examples include:

GreenSpec™—The Environmental Building News Product Directory
Masterspec—includes specification language for LEED criteria and LEED projects.
Federal Green Construction Guide for Specifiers

The following are links to websites that provide examples of different Specification Guidelines.

Click here to view Evaluating and Selecting Green Products from National Institute of Building Sciences.

Click here to view Green Procurement Compilation by Sustainable Facilities Tool.