by Brianna Crandall — March 23, 2011—The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) has formed a new committee to develop an international standard for quality assurance of global green building rating tools. The committee will be chaired by Romilly Madew, chief executive of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).
“Our immediate priority is to provide guidance on the Common Carbon Metric project, which is working towards a globally accepted and consistent methodology for measuring the carbon performance of our building stock,” says Madew.
“With Australia moving towards a price on carbon, robust carbon accounting within the built environment will become increasingly critical,” continues Madew. “We will also be complementing the work commenced by the South African Green Building Council on socio-economic criteria for green building rating systems.”
Other nations represented on the committee include the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and Germany.
