BREEAM stands for The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method. This international program recognizes sustainable buildings and infrastructure projects with the goal of creating a “sustainable built environment.” In order to receive the certification, companies must fulfill environmental standards for buildings, communities & infrastructures pertaining to nine sustainability categories: Energy, Waste, Water, Materials, Health and […]
GREEN GLOBES is a science-based rating system which evaluates the environmental sustainability, health & wellness, and resilience of commercial buildings. They are committed to simultaneously improving business models and the planet. Building owners are encouraged to select the most effective sustainability features for their building, ensuring that at least 35% of the program’s 1,000 points
THE LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE is a certification program offered by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), designed as a framework for the ethical construction of buildings. The Living Building Challenge (LBC) was founded with two main goals: to simplify the certification process for sustainable buildings and to create a difference in the scale of mainstream
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GREENGUARD certifications ensure that products are low in chemical emissions, contributing to better air quality in indoor environments. The materials in manufacturing, cleaning, furnishing and personal care products often contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs). As VOCs are irritants, high exposure to these chemicals may lead to headaches and dizziness from short term exposure, or chronic
WELL Building Standard ensures that buildings offer spaces that contribute to optimizing health and wellbeing. The latest version (WELL v2™) utilizes ten concepts, each consisting of features with distinct health interests. The certification is offered to companies representing optimal health across all ten concepts, including air, water, nourishment, light, movement and more. As a performance-based
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LEED is the most widely used sustainability rating system for buildings, offering programs for carbon and emission-saving buildings. By awarding buildings that demonstrate a commitment to sustainability, LEED incentivizes companies to invest in healthy, efficient, carbon- and cost-reducing buildings. LEED has nine separate certification programs, including ones for commercial, retail, new construction, existing buildings and
ENERGY STAR is run by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. It is a government-backed certification that deems a building ‘energy efficient,’ therefore allowing consumers to make well-informed decisions to support energy-saving industries. The goal of the ENERGY STAR Certification is to make it easier for businesses and consumers to protect the
NGBS provides certifications to homes, buildings and other land developments that work towards the highest achievement site design, resource efficiency and more. Applied to residential properties, the National Green Building Standard uses independent, third-party verification to support environmental claims. Tests target high performance in six areas: Site Design, Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Indoor Environmental
SUSTAINABILITY follows three pillars – economic, environmental and social. Each pillar upholds the goal of sustainability as outlined by the U.S National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which seeks to “create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present
CIRCULAR ECONOMY embraces a conscious approach to business—where the cycles of goods center on sustainability. Broadly, a circular economy refers to the many stages that a consumer item undergoes throughout its life cycle: design, creation and production, distribution, and most importantly, recycling and upcycling. That is to say, it is the antithesis of the dominating
