Greening Canada’s Commercial Office Buildings
As a program participant, you can:
• Use the online Green Building Performance System to help maximize energy, water and emissions savings in your buildings
• Benchmark actual energy and water use against comparable commercial office buildings
• Engage your employees and stakeholders in the performance and progress of your buildings
• Assess the potential for LEED EB:OM certification for your buildings
• Access and contribute to performance standards, baselines and best practices for office buildings
• Make use of the Building Performance Audit to uncover conservation opportunities

Making Savings
Results as of December 31, 2011
numbers in ( ) are increases
  Savings 2011
(vs. 2010)
Savings Percent Savings 2011
(vs. 2009)
Savings Percent
Electricity 36,237 MWh 9.1 % 38,392 MWh 10.1 %
Demand 0 MW 0.1 % (9) MW (1.6) %
Thermal 39,143 eMWh 15.3 % 32,192 eMWh 13.3 %
Total energy 75,379 eMWh 11.5 % 70,584 eMWh 11.4 %
Water 25 10m3 2.5 % 200 10m3 17.6 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 24,644 tonnes 19,866 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 5,006,769 $ 4,887,433
Not all participant buildings are reporting in all years or in all categories. Savings are reported on a net basis.
What's new?
Using the system, you can view total carbon emissions for your organization and for each your participating buildings. Go to the Benchmark report and select Data type: GHG equivalent and Units: tonnes
Participants
  20 VIC Property Management   LaSalle Investment Management
  3M Canada Company   Manulife Financial
  Affinity   Oxford Properties Group
  Brookfield Properties   Scotia Bank
  Cadillac Fairview   SITQ inc
  CIBC   Sun Life Financial/Bentall Real Estate Services
  Crown Property Management   TD Bank
  Dundee REIT.   TELUS
  Epic Realty Partners Inc   Whiterock Real Estate Investment Trust
  KingSett Capital Inc.
Total number of buildings: 152 Total area: 5,393,814 m2