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Certified Green Building Professional Training

May 7-8 | Long Beach, CA

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Services for Local Governments

For more than a decade, Build It Green has served as the trusted ally and consultant of local governments. BIG is ready to help you create a community with greener, healthier, lower-carbon homes. Tell us your needs and goals, and we’ll show you how to get there. With our deep technical expertise, we can shape your codes, climate action plans, and policies to improve quality and health and dramatically reduce energy and water consumption. We can train your staff on best practices. We can coordinate the efforts of planners, building inspectors, contractors, and community organizers to make your initiatives work in the marketplace.

Why BIG Can Help You Succeed

	Expertise BIG’s staff is comprised of thought leaders and building industry veterans with decades of combined experience. We hire the best technical minds who relish tackling our industry’s emerging challenges: zero net energy design, energy modeling and GHG quantification, greening the MLS, etc. We are on the cutting edge of technical standards and green building policy.		Market-focus BIG-designed programs and policies succeed because we know how to make them work in the marketplace. Our goal is market transformation—bringing green and energy-efficient building practices into the mainstream and making them practical for homeowners and profitable for building professionals.
	Collaboration When you work with BIG, you’re also partnering with our network of thousands of building professionals (contractors, builders, raters, etc.) and our nonprofit and research partners. They appreciate working with us because we listen to their needs and collaborate with them to suggest ways to optimize their programs so everyone wins—utilities, policymakers, homeowners, and professionals		Innovation We enjoy tackling tough challenges, and we never settle for good enough. BIG’s talented staff brings innovative approaches to program design and implementation, and professional training and mentoring. We leverage our own ideas and those of our research and nonprofit partners.
	Agility BIG’s default answer to our clients is, “Yes we can.” We move quickly to adjust strategies, program design and technology to meet the needs of our clients. As a mid-sized organization, we have the capacity to achieve speed to market, but also the flexibility to make changes more rapidly than larger companies.

Clients and Partners

Build It Green has partnered with a wide range of local governments and government agencies, including:

Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Bay Area Renewable Energy Network
California Air Resources Board
California Energy Commission
City of Anaheim
City of Berkeley
City of Fremont
City of Oakland
City of Palo Alto
City of Richmond

City of San Jose
City of Santa Cruz
City of Santa Rosa
City and County of San Francisco
County of Los Angeles
County of Marin
County of San Mateo
County of Santa Clara
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Marin County Workforce Investment Board

Sacramento Employment & Training Agency
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
South Bay Cities Council of Governments
South Bay Workforce Investment Board
Southern California Public Power Authority
StopWaste
The Energy Network (SoCalREN)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Department of Energy

Talk to Us
We are always interested in connecting and collaborating with utilities and public agencies. Contact Bruce Mast, Chief Innovation Officer/Deputy Executive Director at 510-590-3365 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.