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Vancouver Green Buildings

Developing a Green Building Strategy

Goal

The City of Vancouver is seeking to develop a green building strategy for all commercial, institutional, mixed-use, and high density residential buildings in the city of Vancouver.

Objectives

  1. Ensure that the strategy is robust, adaptable, flexible, and responsive for both users and administrators.
  2. Ensure that the strategy is enforceable through a regulatory framework.
  3. Ensure that the strategy meets existing civic policy for environmental stewardship and sustainable development.
  4. Ensure that the strategy can be directly referenced to a to-be-determined LEED rating to ensure transferability/compatibility.
  5. Ensure that the strategy is developed in a transparent and collegial manner with the public and all stakeholders.
  6. Ensure that the strategy does not impair the viability of development.

Basics

A green building strategy will allow the City of Vancouver to ensure that all buildings constructed in the future will offer better environmental and health performance for both occupants and citizens. This strategy has yet to be determined in detail, but ultimately, it will represent a variety of mandatory and optional strategies to move toward higher performance. Any strategy developed will strive to achieve a new “baseline” of building performance that meets civic and environmental objectives supported by City of Vancouver Council and the public. The goal is to bring forward strategies over an incremental period of time for all new construction in the city.

Next Steps

City staff will be taking a report to City Council on November 3, 2005 (Downloadable PDFPDF, 125KB) outlining a basic green building strategy. This strategy will be representative of discussions with the public, stakeholders, and city staff. Additionally, the Report will outline basic requirements necessary to meet existing city policy, an assessment of our current building and permitting process as it relates to green buildings, and a discussion of the dialogue to date.

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