Hi everyone-
I'd love to learn more about Green Globes! Has anyone worked with the program before?
Was it as user friendly as they say?
What was the cost and timeline like?
Is it comparable to LEED?
How stringent is it?
Are there any negatives I should know about?
Thanks!!!!
Margaret Montgomery
PrincipalNBBJ Architects
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June 7, 2011 - 7:51 pm
We've been investigating recently, and found it difficult to understand how the ANSI standard relates to the online certification process. Here's the current story:
The ANSI standard is quite rigorous. It seems to have been well thought out, with a total of 1000 credits possible (but the total goes down when one of the credits is N/A for your project). Unfortunately, this is NOT the online certification system. There's a call out for pilot projects, and it appears that there have been no pilot projects yet undertaking this ANSI standard. There appears to be quite a bit of documentation that needs to be MADE AVAILABLE to the reviewer, although not a lot of direct generation of content. The pilot program, at this point, would be a paper process like the original LEED process, until they have developed the full online suite of tools.
If you register a project on the website, you will be registering for the "legacy", for lack of a better word, rating system.