"We decided to pilot our World Headquarters site through the Green Globes assessment process... In addition to being beneficial to Medtronic employees and operating costs, sustainability provides us a competitive opportunity with our customers."

"The assessor was terrific, it wasn’t thumbs up or down decision; he was part of our collaboration and supported us with sustainable direction, advice and ideas. It gives the process transparency and allows stakeholder involvement."

"We have a responsibility to the taxpayers. We wanted to implement sustainable features that were best suited to the project, and Green Globes let us hone in on the items that were most relevant."

"I would also like to extend a special thank you to our assessor, Charles, for his excellent suggestions for improvement during our Stage II Assessment. Charles gave us examples on how we can increase the system sustainability in our buildings and showed us the importance of planning life cycle analysis at the start of the preconstruction process. We are looking forward to collaborating on our next project with GBI! "

"Our assessor put together homework lists of what he needed tracked down in order to verify the content to achieve our targeted certification level. It was a much more efficient approach to meeting certification needs and reaching our goal."

"Green Globes is completely different philosophically. I didn’t feel like I was being set up to fail. The certification is much more lifecycle based, rather than taking a first-cost approach, and throughout the process it was easy to see that Green Globes is trying to help you succeed."

"Our Green Globes Assessor helped us achieve the rating we wanted and do it the smart way. We received advice and options for enhancing the building early on so we could make changes before it got too costly."

"I could speak with an actual person when I had questions. You can’t get that kind of responsiveness elsewhere. When a subcontractor asked if a certain material qualified, I was able to get the answer in real time. The assessor is a game changer."

"The Green Globes rating system verified our commitment to our students’ welfare, community and local ecology. Our assessment is helping us convey environmental education to our students, which will have far-reaching impacts as they move out into the world."

"We always seek innovations and work to improve our products. In fact, our company is founded on innovation, a family atmosphere and sustainable mindset. Green Globes fits right into that. We are a Green Globes user for life."

"The assessor was really accessible, which allowed us to have a true dialogue with him. Rather than running the design and evaluation separately, he was able to inform the process."

"Green Globes made it easy to be successful. The entire process was clear and very simple. I’d recommend Green Globes 100 percent."

"The online survey tool gave me more control in the process. Pop-up notes in the sections led me through in a logical fashion, so I was able to structure my back-up information to match the survey. I could see whether we were on target or not, which gave me a higher confidence level."

"Green Globes was a great learning experience for all of us at Stiles. Quite the preferred approach to have someone to speak with throughout the process."

"I was astounded how easy and reasonably priced it was, and the contractors and architects loved it. Green Globes made different avenues available to achieve points so we could do the right thing without being limited to one pathway."

"I was often amazed at what the survey covered and the details it went into to ensure we received credit for each environmentally friendly aspect of our building. The Green Globes process was very simple to understand and implement."

"At the end of our Green Globes project we have more square footage and we run it for less money than we did before. We achieved our goals and we’re operating as well as predicted, if not better."

"Our assessor knew our project from the planning stage through completion. He examined our initial self-assessment and drawings, then offered suggestions and answered our questions. He did a phenomenal job."

"Green Globes’ flexible approach is capable of accommodating a broad spectrum of project types. It’s tailorable to our building’s specific format and needs, and offers a more boots-on-the ground approach."

"We recognized that there were more ways to help our building become green that we hadn’t considered, and we earned additional certification credits in the process. We gained a lot of very good insight – not only how to be a Green Globes building right now, but also on how to progress as our building evolves and ages."

"Green Globes’ flexible approach is capable of accommodating a broad spectrum of project types. It’s tailorable to our building’s specific format and needs, and offers a more boots-on-the ground approach."

"We didn’t need to populate an enormous amount of online templates and then go back and try to address vague technical advice comments. We filled out our design and construction survey. Then we distributed documents to our subcontractors via fileshare, which saved a lot of time and oversight labor. It was an extremely user friendly format."

"We were very satisfied with both the overall customer service and the user-friendliness of the process. The GBI was very responsive, and the assessors were easy to work with."