Green Globes Certification
Flexible green building certification for commercial, multifamily, and existing buildings
RunBrook helps owners, developers, architects, contractors, facility managers, and project teams pursue Green Globes certification with practical guidance, documentation support, energy analysis, and building performance expertise.
Green Globes is administered by the Green Building Initiative and provides a building assessment and certification process for sustainability, health and wellness, resilience, and building performance. The program includes pathways for new construction, existing buildings, and multifamily projects.
Why Green Globes certification matters
A practical path to sustainability and performance
Green Globes certification gives project teams a structured way to evaluate sustainable design, construction, operations, and performance. Its online assessment process helps teams track progress, organize documentation, and evaluate strategies across individual buildings or larger portfolios.
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Document building strategies that reduce environmental impact and support more responsible design, construction, and operations.
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Evaluate energy, water, materials, indoor environmental quality, operations, and other building systems that affect long-term performance.
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Green Globes can help project teams address indoor environmental quality, occupant comfort, ventilation, materials, and wellness-related strategies.
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Green Globes includes pathways and distinctions that can support projects focused on resilience and long-term building durability.
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Green Globes multifamily protocols can support owners and developers pursuing certain financial incentives, including programs connected to Fannie Mae financing and low-income housing tax credits in states with Qualified Allocation Plans.
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Green Globes certification includes assessment and verification to help document that sustainability strategies have been properly reviewed.
What is Green Globes certification?
Green Globes is a green building assessment and certification system administered by the Green Building Initiative. It is used to evaluate sustainability and building performance for new construction, major renovations, existing buildings, multifamily projects, and other building types.
The program is designed to help project teams assess environmental and energy performance, create improvement plans, document selected strategies, and pursue third-party certification. It uses online assessment tools to support project tracking, documentation, and comparison across buildings or portfolios.
Green Globes is often considered by teams looking for a practical, flexible certification path that can align with project-specific goals, budgets, timelines, and building types.
RunBrook’s role
Certification guidance from building performance professionals
RunBrook can help project teams determine whether Green Globes, LEED, NGBS, FGBC, ENERGY STAR, or another certification path is the best fit for the project’s goals, budget, schedule, and performance requirements.
If Green Globes is selected, our team can help coordinate the certification process, organize documentation, support energy and performance analysis, and provide related building performance services.
RunBrook can support your project with:
Green Globes certification strategy
Rating system comparison and guidance
Early planning and feasibility review
Documentation coordination
Energy modeling
Energy calculations
Energy audits
Building envelope review
HVAC performance review
Blower door testing
Duct leakage testing
Quality assurance inspections
Peer review services
Coordination with owners, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, and facility teams
Final certification support
Green Globes programs we support
Certification support for new, existing, and multifamily buildings
Green Globes includes certification pathways for different building types and project phases. RunBrook can help identify the appropriate pathway and coordinate the work needed to support certification.
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Green Globes for New Construction supports new commercial buildings and major renovation projects. The program is based on ANSI/GBI standards for design, new construction, and major renovations.
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Green Globes for Existing Buildings supports building owners and managers looking to improve and document sustainability, operational performance, health and wellness, and resilience strategies for existing buildings. The Green Building Initiative has released updated existing building protocols, including Green Globes for Existing Buildings 2025.
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Green Globes includes multifamily protocols for new construction and existing buildings. These pathways can support owners and project teams pursuing sustainability certification and certain financing or incentive-related goals.
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Green Globes can also support interior projects where teams are focused on sustainable fit-outs, indoor environmental quality, materials, and operational performance.
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The Green Globes online platform can help owners and managers track certification progress across individual buildings or portfolios.
What Green Globes evaluates
Key areas of building performance
Green Globes evaluates sustainability and performance across major building categories. Depending on the selected pathway, project type, and certification goals, this may include:
Site and location considerations
Energy performance
Water efficiency
Materials and resources
Indoor environmental quality
Building operations and maintenance
Health and wellness strategies
Resilience and durability
Emissions and environmental impacts
Documentation and verification
These categories help project teams evaluate how design, construction, operations, and maintenance decisions affect overall building performance.
Related services
Building performance support for Green Globes projects
Green Globes certification often connects with energy analysis, existing building evaluation, field verification, and performance documentation. RunBrook can support project teams with related services that help streamline the certification process.
Related services may include:
Certification process
A clear path from strategy to verification
Step - 1 Define project goals
We begin by reviewing the project type, certification goals, budget, timeline, financing requirements, and applicable Green Globes pathway.
Step - 2 Develop the certification strategy
RunBrook helps identify target measures, documentation needs, assessment requirements, energy analysis needs, and potential risks.
Step - 3 Coordinate documentation and analysis
Our team works with the project team to organize documentation, complete technical analysis, support performance requirements, and prepare materials for review.
Step 4 - Support final certification
RunBrook helps coordinate final documentation and closeout support so the project can move toward certification.
Why choose RunBrook?
Practical green building guidance backed by technical expertise
RunBrook brings green building experience, energy analysis, field performance knowledge, and construction coordination to Green Globes projects. Because our team also provides energy modeling, energy audits, HERS ratings, blower door testing, duct leakage testing, HVAC grading, LEED support, NGBS support, FGBC support, ENERGY STAR support, and peer review services, we understand how certification requirements connect to real-world design, construction, operations, and performance.
Project teams choose RunBrook for:
Green Globes certification guidance
Rating system comparison and strategy support
Residential, multifamily, commercial, and existing building expertise
Energy modeling, calculations, and audit support
Building envelope and HVAC performance knowledge
Clear documentation and communication
Coordination with owners, developers, design teams, contractors, and facility managers
Support for affordable housing, multifamily, and large-scale projects
Service throughout Florida and select projects outside Florida
Frequently asked questions
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Green Globes is administered by the Green Building Initiative, also known as GBI.
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Green Globes can support new construction, major renovations, existing buildings, multifamily projects, sustainable interiors, and portfolio-level sustainability efforts.
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Both Green Globes and LEED are green building certification systems, but their processes, documentation requirements, scoring methods, and program structures are different. RunBrook can help compare Green Globes, LEED, NGBS, FGBC, ENERGY STAR, or other rating systems to determine which certification path best fits your project.
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Yes. Green Globes includes multifamily protocols for new construction and existing buildings, including projects pursuing certain financial incentives or financing-related requirements.
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Yes. Green Globes for Existing Buildings supports owners and facility teams looking to evaluate and improve sustainability, operations, health and wellness, resilience, and building performance.
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RunBrook should be involved as early as possible, ideally during planning or early design for new projects, or early in the evaluation process for existing buildings. Early involvement helps identify the right pathway, documentation needs, technical requirements, and potential risks.
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Yes. RunBrook can provide strategic guidance to compare Green Globes with LEED, NGBS, FGBC, ENERGY STAR, EarthCraft, or other certification paths based on project goals, building type, budget, schedule, financing needs, and owner requirements.
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Yes. While many of RunBrook’s clients are located in Florida, our team can support select Green Globes projects outside Florida depending on project scope, schedule, and location.
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If your project requires energy modeling, certification support, HERS ratings, blower door testing, or other building performance services, RunBrook can help keep the process moving from design through final verification.