Portland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) announces the release of ANSI/GBI 02-2023: Green Globes Assessment Protocol for Existing Buildings, which was approved as an American National Standard (ANS) by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on July 6, 2023. Following ANSI’s approval, GBI’s Board of Directors unanimously voted on July 28 to approve ...
Read MorePortland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is pleased to announce the 2023 Member of the Year Award winners, FitzGerald Associates Architects (organizational) and David Griffin II, AIA, BEMP, GGF, Principle of Griffin EnerG Consulting (individual). GBI annually awards Member of the Year recipients during GBI’s Membership Appreciation Week to an organization and an ...
Read MorePortland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is pleased to announce two new certification programs: Green Globes Net Zero Energy (NZE) and Green Globes Net Zero Carbon (NZC). These programs will support building and portfolio owners’ efforts to establish baselines, measure progress, and validate compliance with building performance standards, municipal regulations, federal sustainability objectives, ...
Read MorePortland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is pleased to announce the inclusion of Green Globes certification in the state of Utah’s Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), the state’s housing credit program. Administered by the Utah Housing Corporation (UHC), the program is intended to provide a fair and competitive means of using low-income housing credits ...
Read MorePortland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) is pleased to share its 2022 Lookback, a report highlighting its communities’ achievements in 2022. These achievements include GBI’s Board of Directors approving a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), the certification of over 300 buildings across 43 states and 8 Canadian provinces, and passing ...
Read MoreGBI honored 2022’s Project of the Year, Runner-Up, and Honorable Mention in an Earth Week virtual awards ceremony. Portland, Ore. – The Green Building Initiative (GBI) celebrates Earth Week with the announcement of Pinnacle XXIV/Crate & Barrel as the winner of the 2022 Green Globes Project of the Year awards. The industrial retail warehouse building earned ...
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