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Goals and benefits of Building Certification

The goal of all certification rating systems is to provide tools and methods to assess the environmental and resource-efficient performance of a building. The main objectives of such tools are:

  1. optimize building performance and minimize environmental impacts
  2. provide a way to quantify a building’s environmental effects
  3. set standards and benchmarks to assess buildings objectively

Furthermore, the result of such an assessment is to provide a certificate verifying the achievement of the desired performance and quality of the building. Some benefits of certifying a building or a property include:

  1. the negative impacts of a building on the environment can be better understood and this knowledge can be utilized to reduce such impacts.
  2. holistic sustainability considerations will be made for the fulfillment of technical, economic, social and functional requirements of the building.
  3. promotes sustainable design and construction principles throughout the building lifecycle.
  4. increases the monetary value of a building or a property in the real estate market

Building Certification Systems used around the world

Germany

The German Sustainable Building Council (Deutsche Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen e.v., DGNB in German) introduced its own green building certification in 2009 together with the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Construction and Urban Development (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung in German). The DGNB certification is voluntary and is based on German codes and standards (DIN and VDI). It is generally regarded as more comprehensive than BREEAM and GGBC. The DGNB System is based on the three main paradigms of:

  1. Life-cycle assessment
  2. Holistic sustainability (environment, economy and society)
  3. Performance-based approach.

It also takes into consideration the economic aspects and as such, also assesses the associated Life Cycle Costs and Value Creation of the building. It has six assessment categories and further assigns different weights to each category indicator.

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