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Choosing a Green Building Professional (Build It Green fact sheet, .pdf)

Hiring a green building professional is similar to hiring any other building professional in that you want a reputable person with a history of providing a quality product on time and within budget. This document outlines key concepts and criteria to help you take the extra steps in choosing the right green building professional for the job.

American Institute of Architects (Writing the Green RFP)

This document touches on the basic elements of an RFP for design services in a sustainable project, as well as some of the issues to be considered.

Building Green (Introduction to Guideline Specifications)

A set of guidelines for out to incorporate sustainability into your building specifications.

Environmental Design + Construction (Implementing Green Design)

Describes how a spec writer can successfully produce a specification that addresses a green building project's design intent.

Green Construction Guide for Specifiers

EPA has partnered with the Federal Environmental Executive and the Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG) to develop model specification language for numerous Construction Specification Institute (CSI) sections. These guidance documents with sample specification language are intended to be inserted into project specifications as appropriate for a project's environmental goals.

GreenClips (Writing green specs)

A brief discussion on approaches to writing green specs.

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