Best Practices Guides & Toolkits

Insights to Advance Sustainable Building & Climate Action

Insights to Advance Sustainable Building & Climate Action

These resources offer practical, real-world strategies to reduce emissions, improve resilience, and advance sustainability across buildings, infrastructure, operations, and water systems. Whether you’re shaping workplace policies, delivering major construction projects, or planning for long-term water security, these guides provide actionable insights to support informed decision-making and measurable impact.

Use the sections below to explore the topics most relevant to your work:

Workplace & Operations
Construction & Infrastructure
Water

Resources_USGBCCA

Workplace & Operations

Helps schools integrate sustainability into daily operations and long-term planning.

Helps organizations cut emissions, boost resilience, and engage employees in climate action.

A comprehensive and actionable guide to implementing sustainable practices within your workplace.

Leveraging the fourth industrial revolution to reduce emissions and improve health.

Construction & Infrastructure

Implementing electric construction equipment at California construction sites.

Explore the benefits, challenges, and real-world applications of electrified construction equipment.

Highway development process to create positive impacts across the environment, equity, and resilience for the communities.

How to reduce the embodied carbon of your portfolio through more intentional manufacturing, design, and construction.

Water

Examine the energy and emissions impact of water—from import to local alternatives.

Rethinking its value can drive scalable solutions for California’s future.

Demonstrating water reuse in commercial settings to enhance on-site water resilience.

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