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Building Rating Systems 
Green building rating systems are an important tool in measuring and evaluating the environmental performance of a building. These rating systems cover a broad range of environmental considerations from the building site selection, design, and construction, to building operations and workspace quality.
 LEED® (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)
Provides a framework for developing and evaluating high performance green buildings. LEED® Canada is administered by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). LEED is administered by the US Green Building Council in the USA.


 BuiltGreen
Owned and managed by the Built Green™ Society of Canada, BuiltGreen BC offers certification for new single family homes and row homes. Membership in Built Green™ is open to all members of participating Home Builders’ Associations (HBA’s) including builders, renovators, product suppliers or manufacturers, service providers, community developers and municipalities.


 BOMA BESt (Building Environmental Standards)
BOMA BESt is the leading environmental certification program for commercial buildings. This national program was launched in 2005 by BOMA Canada to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information.
Today, BOMA BESt has evolved from simply identifying key best practices to providing common standards; an array of educational and on-line assessment tools; independent data audits; and a four-level performance certification program. 


 BOMA Go Green Plus
An online assessment tool that measures the environmental performance of commercial buildings. Go Green Plus delivers scoring reports on how a building is performing, as well as providing very specific questions that enable the building manager to look at the components needed to achieve the benchmarks.

 Green Globes Design
On-line auditing tool to help integrate environmental performance in project delivery and to evaluate new building design against best practices and standards.


 SBTool
Formerly known as GBTool, SBTool is a generic framework for rating the sustainable performance of buildings and projects. It may also be thought of as a toolkit that assists local organizations to develop rating systems. The system handles large projects or single buildings, residential or commercial, new and existing construction, or a mix of the two. Download SBTool from the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment site.

 Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM)
A voluntary rating system developed in the UK, BREEAM Buildings can be used to assess any type of building (new or existing) against a set criteria and provides an overall score which will fall within a band providing either a; PASS, GOOD, VERY GOOD or EXCELLENT rating.

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Metro Vancouver LEED® Stats:
  • 25 projects certified 
  • 134 projects registered 
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