Keep up with emerging products and technologies that may enhance your project building’s green cleaning strategy and revise your cleaning strategies accordingly.
The building management team should review all practices and products prior to contract renewal with cleaning service providers (typically annually) to identify opportunities for improvement and expansion of environmentally friendly practices.
The staff responsible for overseeing the green cleaning policy and program should communicate regularly with all service providers, review product and equipment orders, and conduct regular inspections and evaluations to ensure that the policy is functioning as intended.
Contractors involved with various elements of your green cleaning policy and program should carry out their tasks according to their contracts and report all relevant activities to building management.
If operational expenses have not been tracked effectively over time, documenting the building’s historical data may be costly because of the amount of staff time required to capture this information. If your building uses an effective accounting management system, however, the cost of documenting this credit will be lower.
If the LEED performance period is less than one year, extrapolate costs based on historical trends so that they represent the best estimate of annualized performance period costs.
