Green Building Evaluation System

New Construction

At this point, I will try to compare the criteria for achieving credits between USGBC LEED rating system and Indonesia GREENSHIP.  In the GREENSHIP, there are two rating points achievable—Design Recognition Assessment (DR) and Final Assessment (FA).

Indonesia GREENSHIP has also referred to LEED system as its fundamental basis.  For each parameter, there will some criteria and from both systems, there are some slight differences in the checklist form.  However, the criteria formed are typical.  Below table is briefly summarizing the comparison of those two rating systems.

Table 1 Comparison LEED-GREENSHIP Indicators

No	LEED	Achievable Points	Pre-requisite	Criteria Credits	No	GREENSHIP [FA]	Achievable Points	Pre-requisite	Criteria Credits
I	Sustainable Sites	26	1	14	I	Appropriate Site Development	17	1	7
II	Water Efficiency	10	1	3	II	Energy Efficiency and Conservation	26	2	4
III	Energy and Atmosphere	35	3	6	III	Water Conservation	21	2	6
IV	Materials and Resources	14	1	8	IV	Materials Resource and Cycle	14	1	6
V	Indoor Environmental Quality	15	2	15	V	Indoor Health and Comfort	10	1	7
					VI	Building Environmental Management	13	1	7
TOTAL		100	8	46	TOTAL		101	8	37
*VI	Innovation in Design	6 (bonus)		2	*II	Energy Efficiency and Conservation	5 (bonus)		1
*VII	Regional Priority	4 (bonus)		1
TOTAL		110		49	TOTAL		106		38

The grayed out rows refer to applicable bonus that can be implemented in the project.  For the certification system, GREENSHIP also follows the method that is used by LEED.  It seems that the achievable points are different in each criterion therefore the point assessment are also different.  In LEED, the bonus points can be obtained in two indicators, i.e. Innovation and Design and Regional Priority.  Meanwhile, the bonus point for GREENSHIP can be obtained only from Energy Efficiency and Conservation indicator.  Since this is the bonus, the GREENSHIP system gives bonus point to the installation of on-site renewable energy system.

Table 2 Comparison LEED-GREENSHIP [FA] Points

LEED		GREENSHIP [FA]
Certification Award	Points Required	Certification Award	Points Required
Platinum	40-49	Platinum	≥ 74
Gold	50-59	Gold	58 ≤ Points < 74
Silver	60-79	Silver	47 ≤ Points < 58
Certified	≥ 80	Bronze	35 ≤ Points < 47

Below table presents the DR achievable points from GREENSHIP evaluation system. 

Table 3 GREENSHIP [DR] Points

No	GREENSHIP [DR]	Achievable Points
I	Appropriate Site Development	17
II	Energy Efficiency and Conservation	26
III	Water Conservation	21
IV	Materials Resource and Cycle	2
V	Indoor Health and Comfort	5
VI	Building Environmental Management	6
TOTAL		77
*II	Energy Efficiency and Conservation	5 (bonus)
TOTAL		82

The design recognition is intended to the design phase of the building.  Here, the project has not been executed.  Eventually, it can be seen from the specific guideline in the portion of Materials and Resource Cycle.  The all materials criteria might not be counted since this is still only the design.  It means the DR system can be extended to the FA system after the project has been completed. 

Table 4 GREENSHIP [DR] Award

GREENSHIP [DR]
Certification Award	Points Required
Platinum	≥ 56
Gold	43 ≤ Points < 56
Silver	35 ≤ Points < 43
Bronze	27 ≤ Points < 35

What we can conclude that, GREENSHIP adopt the LEED system in the point of parameters used.  However, the assessment points are different each other.  This comparison can be useful as the comparison of rating system assessment that is adopting LEED system as its fundamental.

NB:  Green Act: 19.2 miles  = 0.640 gallons oil

        Cumulative 63.6 miles  = 2.105 gallons oil