Green Building Services
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. Available for virtually all building, community, and home project types, LEED provides a framework to create healthy, highly efficient and cost-saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement.
Why use LEED?
Instant recognition for your building
Faster lease-up rates
Higher resale value
Healthier indoor space
Lower use of energy, water, and other resources
Better for building occupants, the community and the environment
Enhances your brand and establishes you as a leader in green building
Certifications
BD+C Building Design and Construction
ID+C Interior Design and Construction
O+M Building Operations and Maintenance
ND Neighborhood Development
LEED Recertification
Cities and Communities
LEED Zero
WELL is the world’s first building standard that focuses exclusively on human health and wellness. The International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) is leading the global movement to transform our buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive. WBI delivers the cutting-edge WELL Building Standard™, the leading global rating system and the first to be focused exclusively on the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can improve our comfort, drive better choices, and generally enhance, not compromise our health and wellness. WELL was developed by integrating scientific and medical research and literature on environmental health, behavioral factors, health outcomes and demographic risk factors that affect health with leading practices in building design, construction, and management. The WELL Building Standard underwent a comprehensive expert peer review process, which included three phases – scientific, practitioner and medical review.
EDGE creates intersections among market players to deepen the understanding that everyone wins financially by building green. Design, verify and certify your portfolio green, differentiating your product and positioning your company at the forefront of change. Through bringing together those who design, develop, finance, incentivize, and live and work in green buildings, EDGE unlocks collaboration and provides a new paradigm for the future. Together we can create green buildings for a smarter world.
An innovation of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, EDGE makes it faster, easier and more affordable than ever before to build and brand green. EDGE reveals the systems and solutions that work best for your climate, bringing international cachet to your certified project without losing the local context. Instantly identify the most cost-effective ways to build green and how long it takes to recover your investment with the free EDGE software. Reach the minimum standard of 20% less resource intensity in energy, water and embodied energy in materials.
Fitwel is the World’s Leading Certification System Committed to Health for AllTM We leverage our partnerships with public agencies and private companies, Champions, and members of the Fitwel Councils and Advisory Board to assist us in strengthening Fitwel, maintaining its scientific credibility, and ensuring its long-term impact and rigor.
The living building challenge is an ever-evolving program shaped by the incredible experiences of our project teams as they continually break new ground. Over time, feedback from a diverse array of stakeholders actively using the challenge helps us understand how to refine and improve the program to have the greatest impacts. This standard is an act of optimism and belief that with the right tools in the hands of passionate, literate, and sensitive individuals, a revolutionary transformation is possible. It is a program that asks us to think holistically and to engage both our right and left brains, head, and heart.
Living Buildings are:
- Regenerative buildings that connect occupants to light, air, food, nature, and community.
- Self-sufficient and remain within the resource limits of their site.
- Create a positive impact on the human and natural systems that interact with them.