In 2009, Harvard's Greenhouse Gas Executive Committee and the Administrative Deans Council approved Harvard's Green Building Standards, expanding upon the 2007 Green Building Guidelines, which apply to all capital projects at the University.

To support the implementation of these standards, the Office for Sustainability offers this Green Building Resource, a set of training modules (life cycle costing, LEED, cost-effective green building etc.), a range of green building services, the Green Campus Loan Fund, and an advisory service to provide immediate assistance in understanding how the guidelines apply to each project and what resources are available.

History

The Harvard Green Building Standards grew out of the Green Building Guidelines developed in 2007 through a partnership between the University Construction Managers Council and the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (now Office for Sustainability), who convened an interfaculty committee to draft a set of green building guidelines for the university. These Guidelines were approved by a group of 100 university project managers, the Capital Projects Review Committee, the University Construction Management Council, the Financial Deans and the Administrative Deans.