USGBC Opens Building Performance Partnership to Current LEED-Certified Buildings
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened its Building Performance Partnership (BPP) to all current whole-building LEED-certified commercial and residential projects.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened its
Building Performance Partnership (BPP) to all current whole-building LEED-certified commercial and residential projects.
The BPP program will create a comprehensive green building performance database and enable standardization of reporting metrics and analytics to establish new building performance benchmarks, says USGBC.
The information will be used in future versions of the LEED program. This data-collection effort will be based in ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager for LEED-certified commercial projects.
Participation of current LEED-certified buildings is voluntary and no building will be decertified for performance or a performance gap. The LEED buildings that participate in the partnership will receive annual information on performance, specifically comparing predicted or actual performance at the time of certification with the project’s current performance.
Additionally, the report will show aggregated data of like buildings and certification levels, and will act as a case study of a project’s strong performance and/or significant improvement.
Currently more than 120 projects are participating in Phase One, focused on energy and water. These projects will receive a basic performance report in time for Greenbuild 2010 in Chicago this November.
Owners of projects certified under LEED for New Construction, LEED for Core & Shell, LEED for Schools, or LEED for Existing Buildings who are interested in participating should follow USGBC’s
Sharing Access to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Data instructions and create an account in Portfolio Manager.
Related Topics:
