March 19, 2008—IPD has launched the IPD Environment Code, a new environmental measurement standard that provides a global framework for measuring the environmental performance of corporate buildings. It provides a useful tool to monitor and compare the environmental performance of buildings in terms of energy and water consumption and waste produced.
The code id designed to facilitate more informed decisions about which buildings to occupy and how to manage the operations that take place within them.
The IPD Environment Code provides a practice template for the collection, analysis and reporting of environmental performance information, as it relates to corporate buildings.
It is applicable to a broad range of property types from retail shops and offices to hospitals, universities, hotels and airports. Through use of common terminologies, the code enables property executives to generate consistent and comparable performance information about their buildings anywhere in the world to support decision making and communication.
The code enables a rating (out of 100) of the buildings’ environmental ‘health’. By using the standardized IPD format, building scores can be compared across an estate—as well as against external ‘peer group’ organizations.
The IPD Environmental Code can be downloaded free.
