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title: "LEED Cleaning Credits — Commercial Cleaning Glossary"
description: "LEED EBOM cleaning credits recognize green cleaning programs and product procurement. What a commercial cleaning contractor needs to deliver to support them."
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 GLOSSARY · Environmental & Compliance 

#  LEED Cleaning Credits LEED EBOM 

 Procurement and operations credits in the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system that recognize green cleaning programs, product purchasing, and equipment choices. 

## Detailed definition

The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system includes a track for existing commercial buildings — LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations + Maintenance (EBOM), now part of LEED v4.1 O+M. Within that track, several credit categories reward the building owner for operating a “green cleaning” program: documented procedures, sustainable product procurement, sustainable equipment, and hard-floor and carpet care that meets specific standards.

The credits most often pursued in commercial cleaning scope:

* **Green Cleaning Policy** (prerequisite) — a written policy covering purchasing, procedures, training, and reporting.
* **Green Cleaning — Products and Materials** — at least 75% of cleaning products by cost must meet sustainability criteria (Green Seal GS-37, EcoLogo CCD-110, or equivalent third-party certification).
* **Green Cleaning — Equipment** — vacuums must meet Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) Seal of Approval, propane-powered or gas-powered equipment must meet specific emission and noise limits.
* **Green Cleaning — Custodial Effectiveness Assessment** — uses ISSA’s Cleaning Industry Management Standard (CIMS) or Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) appearance assessment to score cleaning effectiveness.

For a contractor supporting a LEED EBOM building, the deliverables are documentation-heavy: product purchase records by cost, SDS archives, training rosters, equipment specs and certifications, schedule logs. CCSD can support a LEED EBOM cleaning program with documented Green Seal or EcoLogo procurement, CRI-certified vacuums, and training records. For the full CIMS-GB procurement credit, we partner with a CIMS-GB-certified contractor on that scope (see [ISSA CIMS](/glossary/issa-cims/) for context on why we don’t currently hold CIMS-GB ourselves).

For a property manager deciding whether to pursue LEED on an existing building, the cleaning credits are usually low-friction once the policy framework is in place — the work is the documentation discipline more than the operational change.

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RELATED TERMS

## See also

* [ CIMS ](/glossary/issa-cims/)
* [ CARB ](/glossary/carb-compliant/)
* [ BMPs ](/glossary/stormwater-bmps/)

AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES

## External references

* [ USGBC LEED v4.1 EBOM  (opens in new tab) ](https://www.usgbc.org/leed)
* [ Green Seal cleaning product standards  (opens in new tab) ](https://greenseal.org/)

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