Guidelines & Checklists
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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.
- 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*
--> Find out how to get printed versions of the Guidelines
GreenPoint Rated Checklists & Manuals
GreenPoint Rated is a third party rating system for homes based on a set of green building measures pulled from the Green Building Guidelines and used to evaluate a home's environmental performance. 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
-->Purchase the GreenPoint Rated Single Family Rating Manual
Multifamily
-->Purchase the GreenPoint Rated Multifamily Rating Manual
Additional Resources
--> Learn about the development of the Guidelines
--> To get involved in ongoing guidelines revisions, see Public Comment for Guidelines
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)
