Red Alert on Equipment Metric Review Trend

All, we've seen a trend from the review side that we want to share so that folks can be prepared. There's been a tendency for GBCI reviewers, in the preliminary review, to require teams to use a run-time hours metric for maintenance equipment, as this is seen as the best way to evaluate the environmental impact of equipment, especially if both manual and powered strategies are used. For some teams though, having this metric required of them during the review phase is too late, since they may not be able to reconstruct that information from the performance periods. The RG and other sources of information about the credit do not require any particular metric. Some tips for dealing with this: 1. If you can show that all of the equipment you use qualifies as environmentally preferred in some way, it's not necessary to do all the tracking or come up with the performance period runtime hours for each equipment type. 2. Site maintenance vendors oftentimes develop bids for their contracts based on estimates of how much time they will spend each week doing each kind of activity, and might have good information to help document runtime hours.