What is the LEED Canada Initiative? Is it a new rating system?
The Council wants to be the catalyst for a collaborative, industry-wide creation of a rating system that puts the benefits of green building within reach of any building owner or manager in Canada. The LEED Canada Initiative is not a new rating system, but the path to make green building pervasive; fulfilling CaGBC’s goal of certifying 100,000 buildings and 1 million homes in Canada by 2015. The initiative is a multi-year development process towards the next generation of LEED Canada that engages all sectors of the building industry through a number of committees and taskforces, and through a formal consultation process that will invite input from the broader community and CaGBC membership along the way. What is working with the rating system will not change. What will change includes aspects such as user friendliness, the ability to inform building performance improvement investments, and a system to track actual measured performance.
