by jbs080210j3 — August 4, 2010—The summer of 2009, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its Building Performance Partnership (BPP), a program to engage owners and managers of commercial and residential LEED-certified green buildings, optimizing the performance of buildings through data collection, analysis and action. Starting this summer, USGBC has opened the voluntary program to all current whole-building LEED-certified commercial and residential projects.
USGBC says BPP will further the efforts to understand how buildings perform from the moment of LEED certification and years beyond. This partnership among USGBC and the thousands of LEED project owners will reportedly result in the population of a comprehensive green-building performance database and enable standardization of reporting metrics and analytics to establish new building performance benchmarks.
The BPP partnership is made up of owners, managers and occupants of buildings of all sizes and types that are committed to improving their own performance as well as helping drive the ongoing development of LEED. The LEED buildings that participate in the partnership will receive annual information on performance, specifically comparing predicted or actual performance at the time of certification with the project’s current performance.
Additionally, the report will show aggregated data of like buildings and certification levels, and will act as a case study of a project’s strong performance and/or significant improvement. Currently more than 120 projects are participating in Phase One, and these projects will receive a basic performance report in time for Greenbuild 2010 in Chicago this November.
