The Green Wise Academy™ standard is to strategically position customers as preferred organizations of choice through sustainability practices. The Green Wise Certification Standard™ (GWCS) simplifies the process of achieving certifications and rating systems with their comprehensive, yet accessible, assessment and certification process. Green Wise Academy uses strategic recommendations to help you attain the prestigious GWCS seal, reflecting your unwavering commitment to a healthy, sustainable built environment.
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Supporting organizations that are committed to 3rd party verification of building and occupant health standards.
Green Wise Certification Standard™
The Green Wise Certification Standard™ bridges the gap between the well-being of people and your bottom line.
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Well™ Certification
The WELL™ Building Standard revolutionizes the way people think about buildings.
The WELL™ Building Standard is the leading global rating system, improving the health and wellness of building occupants through better designs, operations, and organizational policies. With over 350M certified SF accumulated since its introduction in late 2014, this evidence-based process highlights the benefit of investing in a building that promotes health and well-being. Our team has a deep understanding of WELL’s rigor and performance-based verification system, providing expertise on how to attract, retain, and increase productivity for the people who live, work, and play in the spaces you create.
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FitWel™ Certification
FitWel™ covers it. Health and wellness is becoming increasingly more important to people and is one of the next major trends in green building.
Building Health for All™
Fitwel® has a vision for a healthier future where every building is enhanced to support the wellbeing of its occupants and support healthy communities. Fitwel™ is a building rating system for commercial interiors and both multi-tenant and single-tenant existing buildings that provides guidelines on how to design and operate healthier buildings. Created as a joint initiative led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) together with the General Services Administration (GSA), Fitwel™ provides guidelines for designing, constructing, and operating healthier buildings. The Center for Active Design (CfAD) is the operator of Fitwel™ and responsible for the third-party certification.
Fitwel™ champions are companies that have committed to using Fitwel™ at a portfolio scale. Fitwel™ streamlines the process for efficient application throughout a portfolio, in order to integrate health-promoting design and operations strategies across multiple projects and a range of typologies.
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LEED™ Certification
LEED™ is the most widely used green building rating system in the world.
Available for virtually all building types, LEED™ provides a checklist for healthy and efficient green projects. LEED™ certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and leadership within all green design standards. Canada is one of the top territories in the world for LEED™ (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. LEED™ is an international symbol of sustainability excellence and green building leadership with a green approach that helps virtually all building types lower carbon emissions, conserve resources, and reduce operating costs by prioritizing sustainable practices.
LEED™ benchmarks and celebrates a projects sustainability goals and achievements, utilizing a framework that is built on decades of expertise; empowering people to choose green options that align with their project’s vision and needs.
Adopted globally around the world, the LEED™ certification has become a benchmark for the design and construction of green buildings and homes. The LEED™ seal is a badge of honor for the organizations that receive it.
BREEAM™ Certification
BREEAM™ measures the sustainability performance of buildings, ensuring that projects meet sustainability goals and continue to perform optimally over time.
BREEAM™ assessments use recognized measures of performance, which are set against established benchmarks, to evaluate a building’s specification, design, construction and use.
BREEAM™ categories focuses on the most influential factors, including reduced carbon emissions, low impact design, adaptation to climate change, ecological value and biodiversity protection. BREEAM™ integrates sustainability measures at the earliest possible stage of a project using the BREEAM framework enables reduced life cycle costs and increases in asset value, building user experience and health, corporate image and CSR requirements, and risk mitigation.
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RESET™ Certification
RESET™ provides Data Standards and Tools for healthy and sustainably built environments.
RESET™ targets the environmental health of occupants, starting with people and indoor air quality.
RESET™ Air is the world’s first sensor-based and performance-driven, indoor air quality building standard and certification program. It requires continuous monitoring so that data can be communicated to project occupants through mobile devices, or other visual displays. RESET™ Air rethinks and simplifies IAQ project certification by setting standards for documenting, communicating and certifying indoor air quality using continuous monitoring.
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LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE™ Certification
LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE™ certification strives to create a society that is socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative.
LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE™ certification is premised on the belief that providing a compelling vision for the future is a fundamental requirement for reconciling humanity’s relationship with the natural world. LBC envisions a future where our planet and humanity are thriving, and we work towards that future every day. We refer to this future as the Living Future.
LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE™ certification recognizes that people can live in harmony with our beautiful planet’s diverse natural systems, as well as with each other. Around the world, our community of architects, engineers, manufacturers, builders, business leaders, and other stakeholders are creating regenerative buildings and products to restore the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.
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ACTIVESCORE™ Certification
ACTIVESCORE™ certifications help building owners enhance their healthy hospitality offerings to active commuters.
ACTIVESCORE™ stands out as it is the only globally-recognized standard specific to Active Travel and directly impacts tenants’ experience. Using a scientific system developed with industry experts, the ACTIVESCORE™ certification future-proofs assets and sets benchmarks for active travel standards. The certification can be an be applied to both new and existing buildings, helping boost your organization’s ESG (environmental, social, and governance).
The application of ACTIVESCORE™ recommendations are tailored to reflect and exceed local planning regulations and infrastructure requirements, helping buildings earn credits for other green certifications such as WELL™, BREEAM™, LEED™, and GRESB™.
In most cases, properly designed active travel facilities/ buildings support access to sustainability-linked loans, reduce interest rates, and public funding.
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BOMA BEST™ Sustainable Certification
BOMA BEST™ Sustainable is a certification program and a building management tool that provides a road map on how to decarbonize, reduce water and waste, retrofit for accessibility and equity, and navigate climate risk.
The BOMA™ goal is to set the standard for building management and performance that guides sustainable and smart operations. Each program is accessible, inclusive and aspirational and drives real value and actionable outcomes for buildings.
BOMA™ Sustainable is the ideal Canadian certification program for any building structure. Since 2005, BOMA BEST™ is North America’s largest environmental assessment and certification program for already existing buildings. It is a unique, voluntary program designed by industry for industry; it provides owners and managers with a consistent framework for assessing the environmental performance and management of existing buildings of all sizes and types.
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At the heart of everything in this world are people. Nothing matters more than our health and well-being. It doesn’t have to be hard, action just has to be taken and that’s why this program exists.
Trish Matthews, Principal