Company: Green Badger - Savannah, GA
Nomination Submitted by: Carabiner Communications
Company Description: Green Badger is accelerating environmentally responsible construction worldwide by equipping the built industry with affordable technology and the knowledge to automate and easily report LEED compliance and ESG metrics. Pairing software with powerful data analytics, Green Badger saves project teams hundreds of hours per project and ensures that more builders choose sustainable construction.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Materials & Construction - Small
 Nomination Title: Green Badger
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the achievements of the nominated organization since January 1 2021, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words)
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Green Badger’s unique, innovative SaaS platform accelerates environmentally responsible construction and ESG efforts worldwide by breaking down barriers that make tracking and reporting difficult and costly. By equipping the built industry with knowledge and affordable technology that automates and easily reports USGBC/LEED compliance and simplifies the growing requirements of ESG metrics, Green Badger is ensuring more building owners and construction project teams choose greener, sustainable options and achieve goals that improve their communities.
Founded by LEED Fellow Tommy Linstroth in 2014, Green Badger is revolutionizing an industry that currently produces 30-40% of overall greenhouse gas emissions, accounts for 40% of energy use globally, and employs more than 10 million workers in the U.S. Collectively, construction consumes 32% of the world’s natural resources, making it a critical sector for achieving a more equitable and sustainable future for everyone.
As a partner to more than 1,500 construction project teams across five countries, Green Badger has significantly improved sustainability and the environment. No other company is addressing this need or delivering a comparable solution to the built industry.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2021 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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In the last 12 months alone, Green Badger’s processes and software platform have:
- helped general contractors keep more than 300,000 tons of construction debris from landfills.
- tracked 446,103 tons of waste with 308,955 tons going into recycling, showing an overall waste reduction of 63% across all of the projects using Green Badger.
- saved more than 65,000 construction labor hours for the companies that use Green Badger, helping more green buildings get built on time and on budget.
- that’s a saving of $4.5 million in labor costs, which can be reinvested in the sustainability of the building, and makes LEED certification and ESG tracking much more feasible for builders.
Additionally, within the organization:
- Green Badger went completely remote and eliminated all carbon emissions from staff commutes.
- Planted 2,600 trees (7,800 trees planted in the last 3 years) through Green Badger’s partnership with One Tree Planted.
- Green Badger donates 10 trees for every new project subscription.
- In partnership with Schneider Electric, Green Badger purchases approximately 15 tons of carbon offsets annually (based on calculated emissions across office use, business travel, and employee commutes) to do its part to help the world achieve Net Zero initiatives.
In 2022, Green Badger received awards for Eco Innovation (Real Leaders) and Sustainability (Business Intelligence Group).
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Green Badger isn’t changing one company or one building – it is revolutionizing the entire built industry, fostering widespread adoption of more sustainable processes and plans with a global impact.
Unfortunately, managing increasingly complex and changing requirements to meet ESG standards and LEED certifications is tough, time-consuming, and expensive. Historically, construction teams have wasted hundreds of hours manually tracking down data and using clunky spreadsheets and outdated processes.
Spurred by personal experience, Green Badger’s CEO innovated a new standard and comprehensive construction sustainability platform. Pairing user-friendly software with powerful data analytics, Green Badger cuts the time needed to manage LEED and ESG reporting by 65%. It’s the TurboTax of LEED and ESG, streamlining and automating compliance by eliminating spreadsheets, instantly verifying thousands of green construction products, providing real-time collaboration, and exporting every updated, review-ready form required for external verification/validation. This saves construction companies $100,000’s on every project and eliminates some of the biggest roadblocks to sustainable construction.
Key features that contribute to cost and time efficiencies include:
- An extensive, constantly updated green product database to instantly verify and document thousands of construction products
- Real-time, cross-platform project dashboards with every LEED credit or ESG metric in one spot, keeping all stakeholders appraised of the current status
- Mobile access supporting in-field reports from a smartphone
- Green Badger easily exports all required LEED calculators, like:
- Building Product and Disclosure Optimization (BPDO) Calculator
- Low Emitting Materials Calculator
- Construction and Demolition Waste Calculator
- Sustainability metrics for construction and operations to validate corporate sustainability goals.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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