Green Badger Signals
Set project address BD+C New Construction IP
LEED v5 · Integrative Process
Green Badger Signals — Reference

Methodology and docs

Climate Resilience

FEMA National Risk Index
census tract; county only if configured
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer
regulatory flood zone at the point
NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer
inundation depth at the point
NOAA CMRA assessment tool
county mean SLR, not parcel inundation
NOAA CRIS / CMRA climate projections
county, to the service-life end year

Standing screening policy: Green Badger’s likelihood-by-impact rule is a disclosed project convention, not an official USGBC formula. Quick-mode envelope and structure tiers are assumed, not checked against local code. NRI reflects current conditions; carrying its class forward is not a climate projection. A tract with NRI No Rating and zero expected annual loss can support a proposed low rating, or NA when corroborated by local conditions. Tsunami NA outside NRI’s modeled regions is geographic, not a rule for Alaska, the Pacific coast, Hawaii or covered territories. EPA AQS and AirNow provide ambient-air context for Smoke, not wildfire smoke frequency. Every proposal can be replaced with better site evidence.

Workbook presentation note: The exported Climate Resilience workbook sets hazard rows 19 and 20 to 15.75 points instead of the distributed USGBC template’s 14.4 points, a deliberate 1.35-point increase. This matches rows 21–36 and avoids Excel auto-fitting the first two rows into multi-line paragraphs. No ratings, formulas, named ranges, or validations are changed by this height adjustment. The export also widens the citation-only column J from the template’s 25.66 to 48 and sets J19:J36 to wrap, vertical top, horizontal left. Hazard row heights remain 15.75 points; the distributed template is not modified.

Human Impact

Census ACS 5-Year Estimates
census tract, place, county, state, nation
CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022
census tract
CDC/ATSDR Environmental Justice Index 2024
census tract
EPA Air Quality System annual summaries
county
EPA AirNow current observation
EPA geographic lookup near the point
USDA Food Access Research Atlas
2010-vintage census tract
National Park Service NRHP
1/4-mile radius
OpenStreetMap / Overpass, Walk Score
walkable radius / point

Water

LEED v5 Fixture & Fittings Water Use Calculator — Database sheet
Indoor Water · baseline rates, daily uses, fixture types and efficiency tiers transcribed in app code; results write to the shipped workbook template.
LEED v4 Indoor Water Use Reduction Calculator
Indoor Water · shipped macro-enabled workbook template with preserved formulas.
NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Climate Normals
Outdoor Water v5 automatic climate · nearest complete station, 12 monthly precipitation normals for 1991–2020.
gridMET daily short-grass reference evapotranspiration
Outdoor Water v5 automatic climate · approximately 4 km grid cell, daily 1991–2020 values aggregated to 12 monthly ETo normals.
LEED v5 D+C Outdoor Water Use Calculator
Outdoor Water v5 · shipped workbook template; project, month and hydrozone inputs.
LEED for Homes 2008
Outdoor Water v4 · plant coefficients by plant type and water requirement.
Irrigation Association October 2001
Outdoor Water v4 · irrigation distribution uniformity by irrigation type.
WaterSense Water Budget Tool v1.04 — Climate Data
Outdoor Water v4 comparison · immutable bundled extraction of the shipped worksheet's IWMI 1961–1990 climate data by U.S. ZIP or Canadian FSA.
wec2_equipment_tables.json
Whole Project Water v5 · application-bundled equipment categories, labels and unit or rate prompts.
LEED v5 D+C Whole Project Water Use Calculator — Database rows 28–73
Whole Project Water v5 · exact equipment-label transcription and shipped workbook template.
Official LEED v4 Whole Project Water workbook
Whole Project Water v4 · shipped workbook template with preserved source rows and formulas.
Green Badger Water product catalog
Indoor Water suggestions · application-maintained fixture, rate, manufacturer and model entries; current specifications require confirmation.

Carbon

LEED v5 D+C Carbon Assessment Calculator
Carbon · shipped workbook template with internal formulas; the app writes project inputs and does not claim an external reference dataset.