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, 2009
numbers in ( ) are increases
  Savings 2009
(vs. 2008)
Savings Percent Savings 2009
(vs. 2007)
Savings Percent
Electricity 13,699 MWh 3.3 % 19,173 MWh 5.6 %
Demand 24 MW 3.2 % 28 MW 4.4 %
Thermal (2,856) eMWh (1.6) % 6,707 eMWh 3.3 %
Total energy 10,843 eMWh 1.8 % 25,881 eMWh 4.8 %
Water 18 10m3 1.7 % 107 10m3 7.8 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 1,147 tonnes 4,515 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 1,535,216 $ 2,160,733
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
  Cadillac Fairview   SITQ inc
  CIBC   Sun Life Financial/Bentall Real Estate Services
  Crown Property Management   TD Bank
  Epic Realty Partners Inc
Total number of buildings: 57 Total area: 2,298,181 m2