1. Green Rating Systems : Intro Rachel MacIntyre, Arkitekt MAA, LEED AP Københavns Kommune Islands Brygge 37 Workshop 22 September, 2010

2. Why Green Building Rating Systems? • Rating Systems Comparison • Impact of Green Building Rating Systems • The Dutch Case • What Now? • The Eden Project, Cornwall, Nicholas Grimshaw • Photo Credit: Jurgen Matern

3. International Sustainability Assessments • Foster + Partners Comparison Map

4. Green Rating Systems • BREEAM International • Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method • BRE, UK • LEED • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design • US Green Building Council, USA Deutsches Gesellschaft fur Nachhaltiges Bauen German Sustainable Building Council • One Planet Living • Bioregional, UK

5. Why Green Rating Systems? Langley Academy of Science, London, Foster + Partners • Rating the environmental performance of a building is necessary to ensure that it’s green credentials incorporate both the visible and invisible elements that make it ‘green’….invisible methods like energy efficiency are often more important and can only be identified and recorded by rating or certification. • Aurore Julien, Llewelyn Davies Yeang’s Eco Systems Unit

6. Why Green Rating Systems? South • Measure the ‘invisible elements’ of a building • Provide benchmarks and checklists of performance • Provide positive motivational sustainability goals • Developed in partnership with construction industry, • business and communities • Progressively improving and evolving West East

7. Key Criteria • Energy + Atmosphere • Materials + Resources • Indoor Environmental Quality • Sustainable Sites • Water Management Green Lighthouse, Christensen + Co. Arkitektur AS Photos by Adam Mørk

8. Materials and Resources • Storage + Collection of Recyclables • Building Reuse • Construction Waste Management • Materials Reuse • Recycled Content • Regional Materials • Rapidly Renewable Materials • Certified Wood ;Bug;

9. Key Criteria • Management • Health + Wellbeing • Energy • Transport • Water • Materials • Waste • Land Use + Ecology • Pollution Great Ormond St Hospital, London. Llewelyn Davies Yeang

10. Broader Focus BedZED, London, Bill Dunster + the ZED Factory • Local + sustainable food • Equity for trade + local economy • Culture and heritage • Happiness

11. Cost Premium - LEED Example The Costs and Financial Benefits of Building Green, Sustainable Building Task Force, October 2003

12. Occupancy + Health Benefits Percent % Percent % Source: Doing well by doing good. Green Office Buildings, University of California, Berkely Working Paper (2008) • Building Occupants Productivity increases 2.18% = 39hrs a year • Absenteeism, Stress + Depression dropped • Respiratory Ailments dropped markedly from 20.21 hrs to 14.06 hrs • Effects of Green Buildings on Employee Health and Productivity, American Journal of Public Health

13. Broader Effects Greening the Codes Building codes begin to broaden their charge to include human and environmental impacts of buildings into their Health + Safety Mission. USGBC

14. The Dutch Case • April 2008 DGBC translates original English version into Dutch • February 2009 13 pilot projects commenced • March 2009 DGBC launched the beta version of BREEAM-NL New • Buildings. Dedicated Wikipedia page open for comments. • September 2009 • BREEAM-NL 2010 Version 1.0 for new buildings approved. • October 2009 scheme publicly launched • April 2010 Transport Building, Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam • BREEAM-NL Very Good Rating

15. What could the challenges be? • What could the benefits and opportunities be? Photo Credit: COBE Architects