Guidelines & Checklists
Checklists and Manuals
Guidelines
The 45 Day comment period for The 2008 Single Family DRAFT Guidelines and the 2008 Single Family GreenPoint Rated DRAFT Checklist has closed. A summary of public comment and response has been posted on the public comment page.
GreenPoint Rated Checklists & Manuals
To fully understand the requirements of these checklist measures requires the use of the Rating Manuals which are available for purchase.
The GreenPoint checklists function best if saved to your hard drive before use.
Existing Home
New Home
Single Family
Multifamily
Green Building Guidelines
The Green Building Guidelines are a great resource, full of best
practices for green building developed by experts and stakeholders
throughout the state.
The guidelines can be downloaded for free using the links below, or you can order printed copies.
- Home Remodeling Green Building Guidelines (.pdf)
- New Home Construction Green Building Guidelines (.pdf)
- Multifamily Green Building Guidelines Part 1 (.pdf)
- Multifamily Green Building Guidelines Part 2 (.pdf)
*The Build It Green Multifamily Green Building Guidelines were
updated as of May 2008. An update for the New Home Construction (Single Family) will be available by mid-year 2009*
Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or newer is required to view .pdf documents; download the latest free version of Acrobat here:-
Archived Guidelines
- 2004 Home Remodeling Green Building Guidelines (.pdf)
- 2007 Home Remodeling Green Building Guidelines Measures List (.xls)
- 2005 New Home Construction Green Building Guidelines (.pdf)
- 2005 New Home GreenPoints Checklist (.xls)
- 2005 New Home Guidelines References (.pdf)
- 2004 Multifamily Green Building Guidelines (.pdf)

