Sustainability & Risk / Green Building / Scoring - Background Data

Entering Environmental Certification Scoring Standards

In order to assess your site's buildings against various environmental standards, you must first enter into the Archibus system the certification standards and their component categories and credits.

The sample HQ database ships with a few standards, including the LEED standards from various years. To become familiar with classification standards and their credits, you may wish to review the LEED classification as entered in the sample database and compare it to LEED publications.

When entering the details of your certification standard, consider the following:

• You will find the values for the standards in publications from the organization that controls the standard. For example, the values for the sample "LEED for Existing Buildings-- Operations & Maintenance 2009" standard were obtained from documents published by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
• If you are using the LEED standards that ship with the sample database, you should not change these values as they correspond with the LEED conventions.
• If your site would like to assess their environmental impact against more than one classification standard, simply enter multiple standards. You may wish to enter more than one standard so that you can compare how your organization stacks up against various standards. For example, if you score higher on one standard than another, you might wish to pursue the standard that is more easily and quickly attainable.
• Since standards may periodically change, be sure to keep current with the organization that monitors your classification standard and update the certification and credit values as needed.

The Scoring - Background Data process provides all the tasks you need to enter into the Archibus system your classification standard and its details. Follow this procedure:

1. Enter basic information about the certification standard.
2. Enter the award levels offered by the certification (such as Acceptable, Good, Outstanding).
3. Enter the broad categories of the criteria against which a building is assessed.
4. Enter the individual criteria (or credits) against which a building is assessed. This may involve entering prerequisite credits and subcredits.

Note: If you want to review your certification standards and their details in report format, see the first set of tasks in the Scoring - Review process. These tasks present the certification standards, award levels, credit categories, and credits in reports that you can print.