A healthy interior environment leads to greater tenant comfort, satisfaction, and employee retention. In addition, the way occupants interact with their surroundings has an impact on mental and emotional welfare as well as efficient building operations.

GBI’s Green Globes® for Sustainable Interiors (SI) provides a healthier, more productive space through a dual-pathway approach to interior build-outs, using either lifecycle assessment (LCA) or environmental product declarations (EPDs).

Why Choose Green Globes For Sustainable Interiors?

  • Focus on the scope of an interior fit out project, emphasizing attainable and impactful design strategies.
  • Guide a sustainable, healthy, and resilient design through early and often feedback.
  • Assess opportunities for energy savings, reduce environmental impacts, decarbonization, and lower maintenance costs.
  • Leverage a dual-pathway approach—using lifecycle assessment (LCA) or environmental product declarations (EPDs)—to create healthier, more productive spaces.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to sustainability can enhance property value, attract long term tenants and meet the growing demands for sustainable and healthy spaces.

Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors offers a focused and practical certification path for interior fit-out projects, emphasizing impactful and attainable design strategies. It supports healthier, more resilient spaces through early feedback and guidance, while helping reduce environmental impact, cut energy use, and lower maintenance costs.

Its flexible, dual-pathway approach—using lifecycle assessment (LCA) or environmental product declarations (EPDs)—empowers project teams to create productive, sustainable environments. Demonstrating this commitment can boost property value, attract long-term tenants, and meet the rising demand for healthy, high-performance interiors.

RM
Without taking the project through certification using Green Globes, we would have never pushed ourselves quite this hard, and we would have lost a real opportunity to gain a strong return on energy savings. Certifying interiors with Green Globes is a smart investment!
Richard Mitchell
Managing Principal | Mackenzie

Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors Resources

  • Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors Point Allocation

    Green Globes SI is a protocol of the Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors 2024 program.

    • Project Management: 80 points
    • Energy: 310 points
    • Water: 110 points
    • Materials & Resources: 220 points
    • Indoor Environment: 280 points

    TOTAL: 1000 POINTS

  • Eligibility Requirements

    Green Globes SI is intended for tenant improvement projects, fit-outs, and remodels.

    Eligible buildings must:

    • Be an enclosed structure or a space within an enclosed structure
    • Have a contiguous project boundary and its site
    • Be a minimum of 400 square feet
    • Be constructed as a fixed structure on a permanent site
    • Be typically designed for human occupancy

    Green Globes SI projects typically contain HVAC systems that are controlled within the building or space for maintaining environmental conditions, subject to adjustment or management by occupants themselves. They also usually contain water systems designed for human occupancy.

  • Assessment and Certification Process

    The Green Globes for Sustainable Interiors assessment process is intended to mimic the design and construction schedule to provide a seamless certification.

    Design Review and Assessment

  • Sustainable Interiors Resources

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  • What does sustainable interiors mean?

    Sustainable interiors refers to the design and construction of commercial interior spaces using practices that reduce environmental impact, support occupant health, and promote resource efficiency — through thoughtful material selection, energy-efficient systems, and strategies like lifecycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs).

  • What is Green Globes® for Sustainable Interiors (SI)?

    Green Globes® for Sustainable Interiors (SI) is a focused, practical certification program for interior fit-out projects that emphasizes attainable and impactful design strategies for healthier, more resilient spaces. It helps project teams reduce environmental impact, cut energy use, and lower maintenance costs.

  • What are the benefits of using Green Globes® for Sustainable Interiors (SI)?

    Green Globes® for Sustainable Interiors offers a flexible, dual-pathway approach — using lifecycle assessment (LCA) or environmental product declarations (EPDs) — emphasizing attainable and impactful design strategies, through early and often feedback. SI certification brings third-party credibility, enhances property value, attracts long-term tenants, and demonstrates a meaningful commitment to the growing demand for high-performance sustainable interiors.

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