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Template manual Green Operations Maintenance Manual for [Project Name] Best Practices for a Healthy and High-Performance Building [INSERT PHOTOS/IMAGES OF PROJECT AND RELEVANT LOGOS FROM THE DEVELOPER, ETC.] Green Operations Maintenance Manual for [Project Name] MEMO RE: Adapting and Customizing the Green OM Manuals A Green Operations Maintenance Manual for The Plaza Apartments in San Francisco has been developed for use by the development’s management and maintenance staff, along with a Healthy Home Guide for the project’s residents. Generic Template versions of each of those documents were created to be used as boilerplates for other project manuals. The templates include highlighted notes that are meant to assist other building owners and property managers in customizing the manuals for their own projects. When preparing to use one of the template documents as a model, please review the entire document in order to identify the content that is or is not applicable to your own project. The template manuals do not provide comprehensive information on all building systems and materials, and the template cannot be used wholesale. Every project is unique and specific content will inevitably need to be removed, modified, and added to the template document to make it relevant to your project. The Plaza Apartments is a nine-story, urban infill building comprised of studio units for a formerly homeless population. As such, the manual covers aspects of green OM that are unique to this population and this type of housing. For example, The Plaza Apartments do not feature garbage disposals or a parking lot or garage(s), and residents do not have yards/landscaping to maintain, so those topics are not addressed in the template, though they might need to be addressed in other projects’ manuals. Other circumstances to consider are that The Plaza Apartments residents do not pay their own utility bills, they have non-programmable thermost