This design credit is implemented after the project is complete and the building is occupied. Through design development, the primary concern is to meet the requirements of IEQc7.1.
Keep up with emerging products and technologies that may enhance your project building’s green cleaning strategy and revise your cleaning strategies accordingly.
The requirement to have an "appropriate staffing plan" is fairly vague. To meet this requirement, the project team should document that they have an appropriate amount of staff time for staff trained in the green cleaning procedures used in the building—this will vary by building and the nature of its cleaning program.
Cleaning contracts should include explicit language describing the contractor's role and your expectations for vendor contributions to LEED documentation.
In many cases, you’ll find that the work order system is the best way to collect and respond to occupant feedback about the cleaning program. This type of system certainly meets the credit requirements.
If you find that cleaning personnel do not receive regular trainings, work with management to institute regular trainings that address the specific products, equipment, and procedures used in your project building; the environmental and health issues associated with the chemicals, materials and equipment they are using; and personnel responsibilities and management expectations as they relate to the green cleaning program.
You might want to defer documenting this credit until the construction submittal to confirm the appropriate system installation and inclusion of the required O&M information.
Variables like clothing levels and metabolic rates are not compliant or non-compliant, but are used instead to determine what appropriate operating ranges will be for a space. You have to show that your HVAC systems will create conditions within these operating ranges.
Occupant access to thermal controls can help to meet the credit requirements on a space-by-space basis while increasing energy efficiency (by preventing conditioning of a whole HVAC zone rather than individual spaces) and increasing occupant satisfaction by giving people greater control over their thermal conditions. Increasing occupant satisfaction will help projects that are attempting IEQc7.2.
