GREENGUARD Certification standards are nationally recognized voluntary standards which establish requirements for low-emitting products used in indoor environments, such as building materials, finishes, furnishings, cleaning products and electronic equipment. Emissions criteria may vary based on product formulatio...
The article reports that the Portland, Oregon-based Green Building Institute (GBI), an organization that controls the Green Globes sustainable architecture certification system, has hired green-building consultant Jerry Yudelson as its president...
Certification of existing buildings with BREEAM In Use (BIU) helps investors and property owners maximize ROI through market value, attracting and retaining new tenants, and lower operating costs. UL Solutions’ BREEAM services include: BIU Feasibility Assessments or BIU Gap Analysis BIU Project ...
Already Green? Green Retrofits This feature is for properties with energy and/or water efficiency improvements already made — within the current calendar year or the previous two calendar years from when the borrower completesForm 1209: Green Retrofits certificationzip. Green Certified We give discou...
The Green Globes system is a building environmental design and management tool. It delivers an online assessment protocol, rating system and guidance for green building design, operation and management. It provides market recognition of a building’s environmental attributes through third-party verificatio...
Green Globes LEED Living Building Challenge WELLProject Examples Our team members have designed more than 100 projects that have earned green building certifications. With our multidisciplinary expertise, we bring together architects, engineers, interior designers, and landscape architects to design comprehens...
“On one recent project, we were asked to look at the cost of pursuing minimum LEED certification and minimum Green Globes certification,” and the results surprised him. Phinney found that registration costs would be more than twice as much for Green Globes as for LEED ($17,000 vs. $8,...
CINCINNATI – xpedx, a leading business-to-business distributor of printing, packaging and facility solutions products and services, has achieved a rating of two Green Globes® for the Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings certification at its Fairfield, Ohio site. The Green Globes program, ...
“On one recent project, we were asked to look at the cost of pursuing minimum LEED certification and minimum Green Globes certification,” and the results surprised him. Phinney found that registration costs would be more than twice as much for Green Globes as for LEED ($17,000 vs. $8,...
Green Globes was introduced in the U.S. by a timber-industry lobbyist specifically to undermine LEED. As Yudelson noted in a January 2014 interview withEBN, “Clearly there was a history of wanting another form of wood certification. I’m not going to look at the history and say it wasn...