Canada Green Building Rocks!
Thomas Mueller, President and CEO of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC), reports that their membership and activities are growing very fast in 2007; on a “per capita” basis, CaGBC now has more members than the US Green Building Council
I met today with Thomas Mueller of the Canada Green Building Council , at his office in Vancouver. The CaGBC now has more than 1,700 business, agency and institutional members vs. USGBC’s 12,500. Applying the “10% rule” (Canada’s population is just about one-tenth that of the U.S.), the CaGBC now has more members per capita. The CaGBC is moving quickly to create a flexible Canada LEED rating system for all building types and all stages of a building’s life cycle, using a flexible “bookshelf of credits” approach, combiined with serious “life cycle assessment” methods, directions in which the USGBC is also headed. Mueller is also spearheading moves to bring Canada’s homebuilders into the LEED camp. Expect to see much more coming out of the CaGBC after a major “summit” in Toronto in June of 2008. According to the conference web site, this event will see the launch of the next generation of the LEED Canada rating system—a tool that will facilitate measurable and large scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and support building owners and operators for continuous building performance improvement. I also learned from Mueller that most of Canada’s major developers are moving quickly to make commitments to LEED office buildings throughout Ontario, the most populous province.
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