Guidelines      

For multifamily and affordable housing projects, the Green Affordable Housing Coalition recommends using Multifamily Green Building Guidelines from the Alameda County Waste Management Authority.

Affordable

• Materials Handbook, a collaborative project of Asian Neighborhood Design and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing, offers information about materials and design strategies that have been used to create healthy, high quality, multifamily affordable hosing for low income people in San Francisco.
  
  
• City of Portland has an excellent book of affordable housing guidelines and checklist which details green building practices. The City also has a good report which case studies the implementation of those guidelines.
  
  
• DOE's Smart Communities Network has good descriptions of and guidelines for green building and community design and construction, good case studies, and further references.
  
  
• Global Green has developed a general set of guidelines, entitled A Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing. GG has also developed more specific guidelines for the Los Angeles Sustainable Building Program (LASBP), entitled Sustainable Building Guidebook, Checklist and Sourcebook. The Guidebook and Checklist outline sustainable building practices and identify cost comparisons. Both documents are available for download. A donation to GG is requested.
  
  
• Santa Monica has made its Green Affordable Housing checklist available. (.pdf file)
  
  
• SeaGreen: Greening Seattle's Affordable Housing (.pdf file) from the City of Seattle, Office of Housing.
  
  
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development has vast technical and policy resources at its site.
  
  

Multifamily

• Multifamily Green Building Guidelines from the Alameda County Waste Management Authority
  
  
• U.S. DOE's ReBuild America program provides technical assistance in energy efficiency projects including the public and MF housing sector
  
  

Commercial

• Sustainable Building Implementation Plan (.pdf file) from California Integrated Waste Management Board. These implementation plans are intended to assist and guide CIWMB staff, the California Green Building Council (established as part of the Executive Committee) and others. As this plan was developed for the CIWMB, the goals, objectives, and implementation plans may be modified to meet the needs of future partners and improve our ability to develop a statewide sustainable building program.
  
  
• City of Santa Monica Green Building Guidelines and Ordinances for municipal and commercial buildings.
  
  
• New York City High Performance Building Guidelines (www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/ddc/html/highperf.html)
  
  
• Oakland Sustainable Design Guide (www.oaklandpw.com/OSDG/index.html)
  
  
• Pennsylvania High Performance Building Guidelines and Model Green Office Leasing Specifications (http://www.gggc.state.pa.us/building/newbldg.htm)
  
  
• Sustainable Building Technical Manual: Green Building Design, Construction, and Operation (.pdf file), from Public Technology, Inc. A how-to guide that describes the process and suggested practices for developing sustainable, energy-efficient buildings.
  
  
• Triangle J Council of Governments - High Performance Building Guidelines (www.tjcog.dst.nc.us/hpgtrpf.htm)
  
  
• Whole Building Design Guide a collaborative effort among federal agencies, private sector companies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions that provides a great portal providing practitioners with one-stop access up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a 'whole buildings' perspective.
  
  

Residential

• Alameda County Waste Management Authority has prepared guidelines for residential new construction and remodeling and is in the process of developing a set of guidelines for affordable housing.
  
  
• Battery Park City Authority, NYC - High-Rise Residential Green Guidelines (www.batteryparkcity.org/toc.htm)