Opportunities for Green Building Program to Focus Reporting on Outputs Supporting Decision-Making

Published October 25, 2024

As King County increases its capital project investments and climate focus, it is critical to ensure that required reporting processes provide useful data and information efficiently. The Green Building Program annual reporting process complies with King County Code requirements but is time-consuming for capital project managers and sustainability staff. Further, reported information has limited utility. Taking time to reassess and refine processes to align effort with key outputs could increase efficiency and allow project managers to focus on King County’s large and growing capital program.

This letter summarizes the results of our limited review of Green Building Program data and annual reporting. The intent is to highlight an opportunity for managers to ensure that time invested in reporting yields valuable information about the County’s sustainability efforts. A future audit may use this letter as a starting point.