Best Policy Practices

Best Policy Practices
SF GreenPRINT
United States
A scorecard as a tool to monitor,
measure and compare environmental
and economic impacts.
Making the impacts of our buildings real to the public and
decision makers is critical to advancing green building. Equally
important is the need to compare the environmental and
economic results achieved through various green building
practices and technologies. The resulting information can
drive decisions today as well as the research priorities for
the future. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple scorecard
that could explain, with real numbers, the environmental and
economic impacts of green buildings? Yes, and it has become
a reality through the SF Green Project Reporting and Information
Tool www.sfgreenprint.org.
SF GreenPRINT quantifies individual building-level
environmental and economic impact information that can also
be aggregated across agencies or entire sectors, such as the
Federal government, local government, or a university system.
The web-based application tracks and reports on the environmental
benefits and economic savings that accrue to a building
owner throughout all phases of the design and construction
of green building projects using the LEED Green Building
Rating System. Developed by the San Francisco Department
of the Environment under a grant from the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), it was designed to be adapted to
incorporate other organizations’ local environmental and economic
metrics and unique requirements.
SFGreenPRINT:
• Monitors the progress of projects and LEED for New
Construction and Major Renovations, Existing Buildings,
and Commercial Interiors (LEED-NC, LEED-EB, and
LEED-CI) credits for which they are applying.
• Evaluates green building projects based on calculated
environmental and financial savings based on achieving
specific LEED credits.
• Incorporates adjustable settings to reflect local avoided
emissions, energy and water rates, tipping fees, and other
data that vary across the nation.
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