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Green Building

Reducing a building's carbon footprint and certifying that your building meets environmental standards not only helps improve the environmental impact of your building, but can also reduce costs and improve your company's public image. The Archibus Green Building application addresses two important needs for companies that are striving to improve the environmental impact of their building:

Determining your carbon footprint and certification self-scoring are independent of each other. You can choose to implement one or both of the features. Depending on which features you implement, Green Building enables you to answer such questions as:

Green Building

Location

This is available in both Archibus SaaS and the Archibus non-SaaS offering.

  • Sustainability & Risk / Green Building

Business Result

A system for calculating a building's carbon footprint.

A system for tracking progress through any sustainability self-scoring, certification, or requalification process.

Used By

Senior Sustainability Officer

Marketing Director

Facilities Manager

Green Building Manager

Planning and Operations Manager

Finance Manager

Cost Administrator

Reasons for Automating

To comply with government reporting requirements, qualify for carbon credits, reduce carbon tax, or obtain defensible data on progress in environmental sustainability.

To show carbon footprint (greenhouse gas equivalent) totals for multiple buildings in a portfolio and track changes over time.

To easily maintain detailed records of sustainability credit scores and supporting data for multiple buildings over multiple years, enabling you to track progress, evaluate payback, and identify best practices.

To assess approximate certification eligibility before formal application.

To perform step-by-step self-scoring of buildings according to configurable, published, or self-defined rating criteria.

To maintain and provide evidence required to support periodic requalification.

To automatically assemble and submit data to obtain Energy Star scores for buildings.

To derive anticipated payback on sustainability investments.

To perform hypothetical scenario analyses for carbon footprint or scoring.

To correlate environmental data to facility use and operations, thereby providing the timely and reliable data required for making and defending strategic sustainability decisions.

Recommended Prerequisite Applications

None

Reports/Results

Carbon Footprint reports:

  • Footprint Summary
  • Footprint Summary Chart
  • Footprint by Source Category
  • Footprints by Source Detail
  • Footprints by Sites and Buildings
  • Footprints Comparison
  • Footprint by Year
  • Footprint by Year Comparison
  • Total Footprint by Year

Scoring reports:

  • Building Score
  • Rating Project Notes and Documents
  • Rating Project Payback Period
  • Rating Project Payback Period Chart
  • Scores by Rating Project and Category
  • Building Summary by Standard
  • Certifications by Year
  • Certification Status Summary
  • Rating Project Comparison
  • Scoring Dashboard

The following are typical users:

User

Tasks

Senior Sustainability Officer

Requires accurate and timely reporting.

Drives green initiatives, determining strategic decisions, programs, and policies.

Marketing Director

Promotes the company's green initiatives to the public.
Facilities Manager/
Green Building Manager

Responds to data calls. Archibus makes this easy by leveraging existing data and automating the collection of new data.

Finance Manager
Cost Administrator
Planning and Operations Manager

Analyzes payback period data, which inform strategic planning decisions.

Compares performance.

Business Process Owner

Defines basic information about the facility.

Defines carbon footprint protocols and certification standards.