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Green Building Initiative (GBI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that administers green building assessment and certification services in the United States. It was established in 2004 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The GBI is the U.S. licensee of the Green Globes rating system. ==Green Building Initiative background== The GBI acquired the U. S. rights to the Canadian Green Globes building assessment and certification program in 2004 and adapted it for the U.S. market as an alternative to the LEED building rating systems. This eventually included modules for New Construction (NC), Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings (CIEB), and CIEB Healthcare for the healthcare industry. The GBI offers these programs to builders, designers and building managers.〔() 〕 In 2005, the GBI was accredited as a standards developer through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The GBI developed the ANSI/GBI 01-2010: Green Building Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings to guide the development of Green Globes products.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Accredited Standards Developers )〕 The nonprofit also provides training and certification for professionals who use their programs. In 2011 the GBI developed the Guiding Principles Compliance Program (GPC) to measure compliance with the Federal Guiding Principles for Sustainable Buildings as required by Executive Order 13514 signed in 2009. The Green Globes certification program was launched in the U.S. in 2005 as an online building design management tool for architects and builders of sustainable commercial buildings. Green Globes originated from a system started in 1990 in the United Kingdom called BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method). In an effort to make the tool more user-friendly, the Building Research Establishment, merged the BREEAM standard with a questionnaire-based rating tool. Later, it was converted to a web-based format and renamed Green Globes. Green Globes is marketed through the GBI in the U.S. and through the Building Owners & Managers Association (labeled as BOMA BESt) in Canada.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green Building Initiative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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