Your green cleaning policy must meet the minimum content requirements for LEED policies and programs. Keep in mind that to achieve both the prerequisite and credit, you need to include all of the required components of both policies and plans.
This credit overlaps a great deal with the requirements of IEQp3: Green Cleaning Policy. Project teams often deal with the overlap by developing one document that addresses both policy requirements and the green cleaning program credit.
Focus on evaluating your current practices for sustainability opportunities. Rather than limiting your process by merely comparing your program to LEED requirements, think more broadly about ways to expand and improve.
Encourage general contractors and mechanical contractors, commissioning agents and building operators to review O&M materials and maintenance procedures together to confirm that system performance and maintenance meets the original design intent.
Provide LEED documentation requirements in the specifications, including the LEED requirements for information contained in O&M manuals and designating the contractor as the signatory for this credit.
Provide ample thermal controls for building occupants. This will increase comfort and occupant satisfaction and will keep operating conditions within the prescribed ranges of ASHRAE-55.
