The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) recently announced its building performance programme, GREEN UP, which enables the benchmarking of energy and water use, goal-setting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and helps identify ways to improve the operational and environmental performance of projects. Canada’s commercial building sector spends $17.6 billion and generates 65.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, says the CaGBC.  Studies also indicate that there is much room for improvement with deep efficiency measures capable of reducing commercial building greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 60 per cent.

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