How can our Building Earn the GHBP Certification?
All GCI certified cleaning services can use the GCI protocols to develop the steps to earn the GHBP certification for your building. It is a process that is easily installed by making improvements to the cleaning program.
What improvements need to be made for GHBP?
Most improvements are just upgrades to Green products, better tools, cleaning practices, proper entry door mats, use of concentrated products, recycled paper goods, and such. When your building reaches 350 out of 900 points, your building is ready for GHBP certification.
Is the GHBP just a One Time Effort?
No, the Green and Healthy Building is constantly improving with the improvements offered through the cleaning service. Remember, 350 points out of 900 leaves a lot of room for improvement. The GHBP checklist is renewed each year by your GCI cleaning service and delivered to the building managers.
What is the Cost of the GHBP Program?
The cleaning service will add a small fee into the bid or charges, but the other value is the health of the employees and the costs of workers suffering from poor or toxic air quality. In addition, the GHBP is an environmental process that reduces plastic trash in landfills, chemical products flushed into the waterways and is likely to reduce absenteeism and medical claims.
When infectious disease becomes an urgent issue, your GCI certified cleaning service knows the basic OSHA sanitizing requirements and can offer far more than a clean building. GCI firms have the training and resources to also provide a program to minimize the spread of all types of infections.
Green Cities are more than planting trees. They are homes and buildings that have a GREEN CITY PLAN to improve the Green and environmental practices that progressively improves the collective effort of thousands of buildings with basic Green & healthy practices that can make a radical difference in the city’s “Seriously Green” status.
The GCI Green & Healthy Building Partnership is a simple yet effective way to improve the Green & Health status of any city in no-cost, easy-to-follow steps. With the support of city leaders, our program will accomplish real strides in these areas:
Reduce the plastic going into landfills
Create Green & Healthy buildings that continuously improve the health of workers
Reduce the chemical effluents that flow into the waterways & treatment facilities
Raise awareness of the value and cost savings of a Green & Healthy building & community
Demonstrate the actual cost-savings of Green applications for any building (Green survey)
Produce annual audits of the progress with our Seriously Green Network program.