building-sustainability

building-sustainability is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects. It costs 79 tokens per session (10,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for making buildings more environmentally responsible and pursuing systems such as LEED, BREEAM, Passive House, WELL, and DGNB. It covers energy use, carbon emissions, materials, health, and certification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a certification system, set energy and carbon goals, assess whole-life impacts, and plan lower-carbon or net-zero building strategies.
Why use it?
It helps compare sustainability frameworks and plan for targets, documentation, and certification requirements early in a project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the Skills-Architects plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a certification system, set energy and carbon goals, assess whole-life impacts, and plan lower-carbon or net-zero building strategies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/skills-architects/building-sustainability
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects --skill building-sustainability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Skills-Architects, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for building-sustainability

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for building-sustainability

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.10362
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.05181
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.02072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.01036

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1a7a895f52a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-sustainability scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/building-sustainability/SKILL.md · 585 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 585 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Sustainability

Section 1: Sustainability Framework Selector

Selecting the right sustainability framework depends on project geography, client goals, market positioning, regulatory context, and budget. The following decision tree guides the selection.

1.1 LEED BD+C v4.1 (US Green Building Council)

Best for: Projects in the United States, Canada, and global markets seeking internationally recognized green certification.

  • Certification levels: Certified (40–49 pts), Silver (50–59), Gold (60–79), Platinum (80+) out of 110 points
  • Point structure: 9 credit categories with prerequisite requirements and optional credits
  • Cost premium: 2–5% for Certified/Silver, 5–10% for Gold, 8–15% for Platinum (varies with baseline design quality)
  • Market recognition: Highest global recognition. Over 100,000 projects registered in 180+ countries. LEED certification is a market differentiator for Class A commercial office, institutional, and hospitality sectors. Many US federal and municipal projects mandate LEED Silver or Gold.
  • Certification body: GBCI (Green Business Certification Inc.)
  • Timeline: Registration → design review → construction review → certification. Typically 12–24 months from registration to certification.
  • Architect's influence: Architects directly influence 60–70% of available points through site design, building orientation, envelope performance, daylighting, material selection, and indoor environmental quality.

1.2 BREEAM New Construction (Building Research Establishment)

Best for: Projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, and markets where BRE assessment is established (Gulf states, parts of Asia).

  • Certification levels: Pass (≥30%), Good (≥45%), Very Good (≥55%), Excellent (≥70%), Outstanding (≥85%)
  • Point structure: 10 categories with mandatory credits and weighted scoring. Category weights vary by building type (e.g., Energy has higher weight in offices than in retail).
  • Cost premium: 1–3% for Good, 3–7% for Excellent, 7–15% for Outstanding
  • Market recognition: Dominant in the UK where planning authorities increasingly require BREEAM Excellent for major developments. Over 590,000 certificates issued. Strong in Europe, Middle East, and parts of Asia Pacific.
  • Certification body: BRE Global
  • Architect's influence: Architects influence management process (design stage credits), health & wellbeing, energy, transport, materials, and land use & ecology categories.

Read the full file on GitHub · 585 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 585 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 1a7a895f52a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

building-sustainability is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects (285 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 10,362 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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