User needs

A need for existing buildings owners to measure the environmental performance of their assets.

  • Green rating is an initiative led by Bureau Veritas with the key contribution of four major European Real Estate investment companies committed to improving the environmental management of their assets.

  • Companies that lack reliable and consistent indicators of the environmental performance of their current European property portfolios have joined forces to develop the Green Rating and test it on real cases.

Green building drivers

Drivers of green building
Source McGram-Hill Construction Research & Analytics, 2006

The involvement of building professionals in Green Building varies from 3% in Japan to 45% in Germany.
Source McGram-Hill Construction Research & Analytics, 2006