When You Are Ready to Go Green — Guidance and Support

From new construction, to refurbishing or just implementing money saving green processes and procedures, Ei can help you with an incremental to full-commitment implementation of Green.

You might convert your waste-stream to resource, reduce your energy costs, improve employee efficiency, or any number of money saving solutions while you capitalize on the promotional benefits of making your business more earth friendly.

Talk to us about how you can accomplish this, and visit our Handyworkgreen Page for tips and tricks for saving green by going green!

Eaglecliff Incorporated is an independent sustainability consulting and documentation company. We help develop viable and workable environmental visions and plans, and document both plans and implementation. One key offering is a one-day sustainability workshop that we conduct based on the requirements of defined stakeholders within your organization, from green orientation for a particular craft/trade, to corporate policy high-level perspectives. We also conduct tactical environmental assessments for strategic green planning for long and short-term implementation.

Environmental "Green" initiatives make business sense when implemented to provide a positive return on investment. That ROI might be measured in fewer sick days due to a more comfortable and clean indoor environment, reduced high-risk inventories, reduced administration of waste management, positive community recognition, lower employee turnover. The bottom line of change can be a profitable one.

• Engagement Philosophy: Eaglecliff is committed to keeping it simple and doing only what is critical and necessary to meet criteria and requirements for your situation, with a viable ROI based on your cost of consulting and cost of recommended solution implementation. Eaglecliff participation is usually of short duration--often only a few days. We use interview, survey, and interactive discussion to determine your needs and requirements. Recommendations and guidance are then customized to your needs, both stated and observed.
  
  
• Cost Structure: Eaglecliff provides independent consulting and transitions published and practiced research, guidelines, and recommendations to your team on the ground. Our independence from suppliers, vendors, and contractors gives you various pathways and options in bringing green building expertise into your projects. We can usually offer you a multi-level proposal for levels of service with a firm cost option.
  
  
• Education and Training for Staff and Workforce: A 30-year veteran in documentation and technical training development, with broad experience in standards-based fields of construction, aerospace, software, contracts, and quality, our president, Maribeth Yarnell is accustomed to getting workforce and management up-to-speed in arenas required to keep safety, quality, and profits high. Maribeth has added the sustainability knowledge base with LEED® Green Building studies to her skill-set. As a LEED Green Associate^TM, with significant expertise in green thought as it relates to profitable business practices, Maribeth can help you strengthen your business plan with sustainability-based projects and resources. In terms of facilities management, office practice, and production control, waste management, as well as construction and remodeling related planning, we are ready to support your operations.
  
  

Eagleturtle Creative is the design, ornamentation, embellishment, and production arm of Eaglecliff. Visit eagleturtle online for sculptures, architectural ornament, garden decor, murals and bas relief, as well as graphic arts and paintings. Contact Eaglecliff for custom sustainable designs and works of art for your building project.

So, you are interested in sustainability in the built environment, or green building?
and you want to know more about what all the excitement is about? The biggest impact is coming from LEED®, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a product of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). usgbc.org

LEED is today the grandmother of green building standards in the U.S. and Canada, and gaining acceptance all over the world. By no means a standard developed in a vacuum, LEED utilizes qualifying tools developed by many others, including: the HVAC&R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Regrigeration) standards of ASHRAE, the Portfolio Manager of the EPA's EnergyStar®, and many of the California and Washington State guidelines for green buildings in construction, remodeling, retrofitting, operations, and maintenance. A building can become LEED Certified, LEED Silver Certified, LEED Gold Certified, or LEED Platinum Certified. [PLEASE, try not to say 'LEEDS,' a temptation due to the name of cities, and knowing that multiple requirements must be met?] LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. A person can become credentialed in LEED requirements: an Accredited Professional in the LEED building arena, or a LEED Green Associate, to promote LEED standards in the built environment and community. As a LEED AP you can focus your expertise on any of a variety of specialties: Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance; New Construction; Commercial Interiors; Homes; Neighborhood Development; Schools, Health and Retail Spaces.

There are some really well-done online introductions, tutorials, and webinars for those who would like to get a taste of the green, without getting too bogged down in all the strict details at the outset. We have listed some fun and interesting links here. Many of the observable applications for LEED criteria carry across various specialty areas, so don't hesitate to enjoy a micro-course on schools, when you are really interested in Commercial Interiors.

You will notice that universities and states as well as the EPA are making educational contributions to these opportunitites for Americans to learn about green building (verb) and green buildings (noun). These resources can be a real asset if you need to check it out when you can't sleep at 2am, or while you're waiting for a flight.

Many of these learning tools are not too deep, but grasp the vocabulary, because in the long run, many words have critically special meaning in this brave new world of Green Standards.

When You Are Ready to Go Green — Guidance and Support

From new construction, to refurbishing or just implementing money saving green processes and procedures, Ei can help you with an incremental to full-commitment implementation of Green.

You might convert your waste-stream to resource, reduce your energy costs, improve employee efficiency, or any number of money saving solutions while you capitalize on the promotional benefits of making your business more earth friendly. Talk to us about how you can accomplish this, and visit our Handyworkgreen Page for tips and tricks for saving green by going green!

When your technical staff is overburdened and you need technical communications produced on time and within budget, Ei Tech Pubs can meet the challenge.

From Illustrated Product Documentation to Operation Manuals, from project proposals to technical marketing sheets, we at Ei can help make you a winner!

When your customers are demanding a thoroughly documented quality system, we can help you produce your quality manual and procedures documents to the ISO9000/2000 standard..

• Technical Documentation and Reporting
• Quality Documentation and Training
• Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Proposal Writing/RFP Response<
• Technical Training Grant Writing<

• Technical writing, editing, illustrating, information design, RFP response development, publishing (print and electronic), graphic design, brochure/newsletter development and production.
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  Technical training and course development; quality system documentation training; training in process audits, root cause analysis, procedure documentation.
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  Consulting in document management, workflow, knowledge management, legacy records conversions and management, configuration management.
Our team includes aerospace workers in technical illustration, aircraft maintenance and flight manuals. We also have strong capabilities in software user manuals and programmer manuals. We are familiar with all current electronic and paper publishing formats, as well as legacy document conversion to universal formats such as XML, 3D drawing files, and flash tutorials.

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NAICS/SIC

NAICS	DESCRIPTION
238140	Masonry Contractors
238150	Glass and Glazing Contractors
238390	Other Building Finishing Contractors
238910	Site Preparation Contractors
238990	All Other Specialty Trade Contractors
325612	Polish and Other Sanitation Good Manufacturing
327211	Flat Glass Manufacturing
327212	Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing
327215	Glass Product Manufacturing Made of Purchased Glass
327310	Cement Manufacturing
327390	Other Concrete Product Manufacturing
511130	Book Publishers
561720	Janitorial Services
561740	Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Services
561790	Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings
711510	Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers
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FSC
Federal Supply Classification (FSC)
6910 	TRAINING AIDS AND DEVICES
7610    BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS 
7690    MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATTER