Greening Canada’s Administration 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 administrative 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 6,341 MWh 4.2 % 9,042 MWh 5.8 %
Demand 12 MW 4.0 % 8 MW 2.8 %
Thermal 8,077 eMWh 8.7 % 10,241 eMWh 10.8 %
Total energy 14,418 eMWh 5.9 % 19,282 eMWh 7.7 %
Water 29 10m3 8.7 % 38 10m3 11.0 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 2,891 tonnes 3,953 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 883,882 $ 1,226,046
Not all participant buildings are reporting in all years or in all categories. Savings are reported on a net basis.
What's new?
"Green Up" has been launched for 2009.  For information on joining, please contact Monique Goguen at mgoguen@cagbc.org
Participants
Federal
Number of buildings: 19
Total area: 367,689 m2
Provincial
Number of buildings: 28
Total area: 443,696 m2
Municipal
Number of buildings: 7
Total area: 88,096 m2
Utility Company
Number of buildings: 1
Total area: 10,433 m2
Total number of buildings: 61 Total area: 1,157,255 m2