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CaGBC, LEED green building trends
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New report shows Canadian green building market growing steadily with owners seeing strong benefits from building green.

...homes in an effort to make every building greener. The CaGBC reduces environmental impacts from the built environment through education/training, building certification, advocacy and information sharing. The CaGBC is the license holder for the LEED green building rating system in Canada. In addition to LEED, the CaGBC ...

The LEED Platinum Beachaus II in Vancouver, BC
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The Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) measures the environmental benefit of the LEED for Homes program.

...LEED project in 2005, the CaGBC collected data over the next eight years, measuring the direct impact LEED Canada made on various aspects of the environment, including greenhouse gas emissions, national energy and water consumption and waste diversion. The results were compelling: A 312,006 C02e tonne reduction in gree...

Why build LEED?
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Why build LEED?

...LEED Certified builders? There are no LEED certified builders, only LEED certified buildings. To build a home to LEED certification is something that is accessible to anyone, no accreditation is required to undertake the process. It is simply a matter of registering your project and successfully completing the requirem...