{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"LEED V5, Embodied Carbon, and Why 2026 Is Prep Year with Kristin Brubaker, Green Badger","description":"LEED V5 got pushed to June 30, 2027 \u2014 and if your team hears "delay" and relaxes, you're going to be underwater. In this episode we sit down with Kristin Brubaker, Head of Sustainable Construction Solutions at Green Badger, to walk the industry through what actually changes and what a smart GC, sustainability director, or building product manufacturer should be doing with the runway.   Kristin brings her environmental science background, four years at Whiting-Turner, and a front-row seat to thousands of LEED projects into a conversation that is equal parts masterclass and gut check. We cover:   Why sustainability submittals are still one of the most manual, RFI-heavy pain points in construction \u2014 and how Green Badger's 125,000+ product database (now integrated with EC3 and the HPD Collaborative) removes the busywork The mandatory embodied carbon assessment coming in V5 for structure, enclosure, and hardscape \u2014 and the carbon literacy your GC team needs to build now The commingled waste shake-up: new third-party facility rules, the East Coast \/ West Coast infrastructure gap, and what it means for anyone building data centers or campuses in the middle of the country The product selection credit that just tripled in scope \u2014 from documenting a few products to tracking every product in a category Buy Clean: the nine-state policy putting embodied carbon thresholds on public projects with real teeth The single most important document a building product manufacturer can invest in right now (hint: it's a product-specific Type 3 EPD) Green Badger Academy \u2014 the free sustainability curriculum designed for the project engineer, APM, or rep who just got handed a LEED project   Whether you're on the GC side wondering how to prepare your teams, on the manufacturer side trying to stay on the shortlist, or on the ownership side making the business case \u2014 this is the episode. Episode Sponsor Brought to you by Hanson Wade's Advancing Construction Decarbonization. Denver, July 28\u201330, 2026. Kristin is speaking on day one and Green Badger has a table throughout. Use the 10% discount code below to register.   Discount code: BUILDPERSPECTIVES10 Register: HERE  Connect Kristin Brubaker on LinkedIn Green Badger: https:\/\/getgreenbadger.com Green Badger Academy   ","author_name":"Build Perspectives Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/buildperspectives.libsyn.com\/website","html":"