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Tracking a Rating Project through the Certification Process

With the Scoring - Track process, you monitor your certification efforts through the stages of a certification process:

  1. Self-score your building against a certification standard . Based on your self-score , you can decide to apply for certification or make improvements to your facility in order to bring up your score.
  2. When you are satisfied with your self-score, you can apply for certification.
  3. Once certification is granted, you can enter the official scores into the system to prepare for certification renewal.

Depending on operations at your site, you may use Archibus Green Building's Scoring-Track process to manage all or part of this process. For example, your site may focus on self-scoring and not use Archibus Green Building as a repository for official scores.

Procedure

  1. Define a rating project for storing your evaluation data.
  2. Carefully evaluate how your building meets the criteria of the certification standard. The more honestly and thoroughly you make this evaluation, the closer your self-score will match the actual scores issued by the organization overseeing the certification standard.
  3. Enter your self-scores into the system and calculate your point total . If you wish, you can optionally do the following:
  1. Analyze the results of your self-score. Do you qualify for certification? At which level? Perhaps you can make some simple improvements that will raise your score and qualify you for a higher level of certification.
  2. Submit your application. In your rating project, you can track your status by:
  • Completing Certification Status with Submitted.
  • Completing Application Date with the date that you submitted your application.
  1. When the organization reviews your application and returns official scores to you, you can:

  1. When it comes time to apply for certification renewal, create a new rating project with the new analysis period and certification level goal. You can then enter your new scores and run the comparison reports to compare projects for the building to see how the certification scores and levels change over time.

Note: Although the above procedure focuses on the certification process, you can score your building for purposes that do not relate to certification, such as for an Energy Conservation Measures (ECM) project. The forms, reports, and structure of the Scoring processes lend themselves to a wide variety of potential applications.