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It was established as the Green Building Certification Institute in January 2008 with the support of the U.S. Green Building Council to provide independent oversight of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) project certification and professional credentialing processes.
The LEED Professional Exams are administered by the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) for professionals seeking to earn credentials and certificates. The exams test knowledge based on the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating Systems.
Through its partnership with the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), USGBC offers a suite of LEED professional credentials that denote expertise in the field of green building. USGBC incentivizes LEED certification by awarding extra certification points to building projects completed with a LEED-certified professional on staff. [1
As of early 2014, Green Garage Certification is in beta-test at 50+ North American sites; it will formally launch its version 1.0 program on June 1, 2014. The council is the only national body offering sustainability certification to parking facilities. There are 20,000 lots and garages enrolled with the council nationwide — covering more ...
By 2016, over 200 projects in 21 countries adopted the certification. [1] In 2014, Green Business Certification Inc. began to provide third-party certification for WELL. By 2024, WELL is being used across more than 5 billion square feet of space in 130 countries, supporting an estimated 25 million occupants in nearly 74,000 commercial and ...
The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) describes its LEED professional accreditation as "demonstrat[ing] current knowledge of green building technologies, best practices" and the LEED rating system, to assure the holder's competency as one of "the most qualified, educated, and influential green building professionals in the marketplace."
GBCI seems to approve as "Green" a massive amounts of ecologically destructive commercial developments on sensitive ecosystems, without third-party scientific sustainability validation. Red flags include high certification fees, with no public transparency (ie. open peer review, rejection statistics). The references are merely two Press Releases.
The Green Certificate Company – green business certification site. Green Business Bureau – green business certification site . Green Business League – green business certification site Archived 2010-09-12 at the Wayback Machine; Green Power Network's RECs page . Green Standard Certificate Scheme