Green Purchasing and Green Housekeeping?

The answer to your first question is, No, I haven't attempted a separate procurement ID credit. Green purchasing or procurement has been used in v2.2 but it was always tied to a more comprehensive scope such as green cleaning. Other approaches I have seen is demonstrating reduction in waste strategies through procurement or environmentally preferable services (which really ties back to green housekeeping). I think if you are trying to demonstrate a new policy/procedure for green procurement in your building see the EBOM system. It has a whole section (credits and prerequisites) on sustainable purchasing. What I'm unclear about is if you can pull one of these credits as an ID credit in the NC system. However, I think you could make the argument that it's unavailable to you under NC, prepping your client to potentially go for EBOM in the future, etc.

Our teams have submitted Green Housekeeping idependently as ID credit and have achieved every time. The criteria is very specific - see LEED-EB credit criteria for guidance.

We have a client who is concerned that some of these strategies - Green housekeeping, Education, etc. are not still acceptable in LEED 2009. Have you been successful under 2009 with these? Is there anything in the reference guide about it?

Jonathan, I haven't heard or seen anything to indicate that these approaches are suddenly invaid for LEED 2009. In fact, the education approach is pretty much enshrined, via the Reference Guide, and the housekeeping should still be fine. What is the specific concern?

The client pointed me to a GBCI document that stated that pre-LEED2009 CIRs were no longer necessarily binding, and he extrapolated that to mean that the CIRs about ID credits could not be counted upon. My reading of the document was that new versions of LEED can supersede previous rulings on specific credits, but for anything not otherwise specified they would generally stick with the intent of the original ruling. I did see the education piece in the reference guide, thanks. The whole interaction kind of threw me for a loop, but I wanted to check in with this group to see what others had experienced.

The CIR piece is important, but I wouldn't read too far into it. They have always said that previous ID paths are not precedent setting, but there are well-worn paths that folks know how to follow, and are allowed to use.