GREEN UP - Canada's Building Performance Program

GREEN UP - Canada's Building Performance Program is a focused effort to develop an affordable and easily accessible tool for energy and environmental management for new and existing buildings.

In parallel with the technical adaptation and development of LEED Canada, national pilot projects are being conducted to engage market sectors in the performance management system in order to establish performance metrics and baselines, and put existing buildings on track towards LEED certification.

With ever-increasing numbers of building owners and homeowners engaging in this initiative, and reporting their energy and water use and progress towards certification, the CaGBC is creating a large, dynamic building performance database and information system for entire building sectors. This will allow reporting on energy and emissions, conservation potential and trends, performance and design standards, and actual and planned investment in building improvements.

Through the CaGBC building performance management system, owners and managers will be able to go online and take a structured, standardized approach to:

•  record and monitor energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions
•  assess the energy and environmental performance of all their buildings, including carbon footprint and conservation potential.
•  identify and plan energy and environmental improvements using LEED templates.
•  obtain performance metrics and design standards to improve design of new buildings.
•  access training to guide staff in achieving and maintaining high performance.
•  assess their LEED scores, and put their buildings on track towards certification.