Statewide Model Residential Green Building Guidelines
Bruce Mast
The announcement provided below is from the California Integrated Waste Management Board. While the initial guidelines focus on residential new construction, they create a welcome precedent of statewide consistency that hopefully will eventually extend to the multifamily arena. To review the guidelines themselves, please visit http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/GreenBuilding/Residential/Guidelines/default.htm
Bruce Mast
Green Affordable Housing Coalition
610 16th Street, Suite 412
Oakland, CA 94612
510-271-0880 fax
www.GreenAffordableHousing.org
Statewide Model Residential Green Building Guidelines
In response to requests from local jurisdictions and other interested parties, the CIWMB has provided a set of model green building guidelines aimed at the residential sector. These model statewide guidelines were developed for the following reasons:
- To provide local jurisdictions with "plug-'n-play" tools to implement a residential green building program without the need to devote scarce resources for developing their own program.
- To provide a common standard that can be used by jurisdictions throughout the state without causing builders the headaches associated with requirements that vary by jurisdiction.
- To aggregate several varying residential guidelines in order to achieve greater simplicity.
- To provide guidelines developed by an independent source.
Latest Draft
The latest draft of the statewide model guidelines consist of two parts—the guidelines and a checklist—and are available for download.
- Guidelines (Adobe PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Checklist (Adobe PDF, 29 KB)
Comments and Interested Parties
An interested parties workshop is scheduled for July 21, 2005, 10:00 AM to noon at the Cal/EPA Headquarters Building. Please note that while the interested parties meeting is only scheduled until noon, CIWMB staff will be available for discussion past the scheduled meeting time. If you would like more information or if you would like to submit comments, please contact the staff listed below.