What is the Certification Sites?
Sustainable Sites Initiative is a certification that promotes strategies to protect ecosystems, with the aim of benefiting the community by measuring its performance and increasing its value, creating sustainable landscapes.
Aligning the development and management of the earth with the site design for innovative and sustainable.
Who grants the Certification Sites?
The Green Business Certification Inc. GBCI is the institution that manages and grants the certification Sites is the result of a research of several years which was attended by leaders in the fields of water, vegetation, soil, and materials of health.
Benefits of the Certification Sites
The main objective of the Certification Sites is the development of landscapes pleasing to the eye, functional, and regenerative, this goal is derived:
- Climate regulation
- Reduces the consumption of energy
- Flood mitigation
- Raise the value of the sites
- Measure the performance
- To ensure the provision of resources for the future
- Create regenerative systems
- Create better habitats for wildlife
- Opportunities for outdoor recreation
- Foster spaces resilient
- Enhancing human well-being
- Decrease in infrastructure costs
Sites is a design tool for: architects, designers, engineers, developers, environmentalists, etc
Who can get the Certification?
Certification Sites and can get projects of new construction and existing sites, for which it develops a project of renovations.
- Open spaces
- Commercial
- Residential
- Institutional education
- Cityscapes, streets, and parks
Process to obtain the Certification Sites
The steps to follow to get the certification Sites are:
- Project record.
- Document all the prerequisites, and credits during the stage of pre-design, design and construction.
- Review comments issued by the GBCI of what is documented.
- To address the comments of the GBCI and send it as a final review.
- Response of the GBCI on the final review and if everything is satisfactory, you get the certification
Levels of Certification Sites
- Certificate: 70-84 points
- Silver: 85-99 points
- Gold: 100-134 points
- Platinum: over 135 points
Sections of credits for the Certification Sites
- Site context, 13 points
- Evaluation of the pre-design + Planning, 3 points
- Site design – Water, 23 points
- Site design – Soil + Vegetation, 40 points
- Site design – materials Selection, 41 points
- Site design – human Health + well-being, 30 points
- Construction, 17 points
- + Operation Maintenance, 22 points
- Education + performance Monitoring, 11 points
- Innovation or exemplary performance, 9 points
Scorecard Sustainable Sites Initiative
Certification Sites has been shown to have benefits in people that frequent them and/or inhabit, the improvements have been physical and mood, as well as in tasks recreational and resolution of problems.
Services for Certification Sites
- Diagnosis project
- Development of strategies in the project to get the Certification Sites
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