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

For more information on CaGBC’s initiatives, pilot projects and programs, please visit www.cagbc.org.
Making Savings
Results as of December 31, 2008
numbers in ( ) are increases
  Savings 2008
(vs. 2007)
Savings Percent Savings 2008
(vs. 2006)
Savings Percent
Electricity 3,910 MWh 0.5 % 16,845 MWh 2.1 %
Demand (18) MW (1.9) % (0) MW (0.0) %
Thermal 3,603 eMWh 1.0 % 15,577 eMWh 4.3 %
Total energy 7,513 eMWh 0.7 % 32,422 eMWh 2.8 %
Water 148 10m3 6.3 % 420 10m3 16.4 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 4,931 tonnes 11,126 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 549,934 $ 1,969,394
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
Greening Canada's Commercial Buildings has been launched for 2009.  For information on joining, please contact Monique Goguen at mgoguen@cagbc.org
Participants
  20 VIC Property Management   GreenCorp
  Brookfield Properties   KingSett Capital Inc.
  Cadillac Fairview   LaSalle Investment Management
  CIBC   Oxford Properties Group
  Crown Property Management   Scotia Bank
  Dundee REIT.   SITQ inc
  Epic Realty Partners Inc   Sun Life Financial/Bentall Real Estate Services
Total number of buildings: 62 Total area: 3,137,159 m2