LBC1.1: Design/Construction & Interior Certifications
Maximum Score
0 points
Prefill
Not eligible
Validation
Automatic
Does the lender track Design/Construction/Interior Green Building Certification data for standing assets in its loan portfolio?
Assessment Instructions
Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?
This indicator assesses the lender’s use of green building certifications awarded for design, construction, and/or major renovation (refurbishment) of buildings and for interior fit-out. Green building certificates provide a measure of asset quality that may provide risk management insights for lenders, along with benefits for occupants, society and the environment. Building certifications also serve as an additional layer of transparency and accountability to inform investors and occupiers on the sustainability performance of an asset. As the relevance of the information provided by building certifications evolves over time, their validity is assessed in this indicator by imposing an expiration year.
Input: How do I complete this metric?
Participants can optionally report their loan portfolio building certifications and their corresponding certification years at the asset-level through the GRESB Asset Portal.
This indicator is solely focused on the certificates obtained for building design, development, and structure or the interior. Operational green building certificates are reported separately in LBC1.2.
Lenders are benchmarked based on green building certifications awarded prior to the official GRESB submission deadline.
Any green building certification within the loan portfolio that was awarded after the official GRESB submission deadline will not be included in the benchmark.
Pre-assessments or other forms of pre-certification received prior to project completion or the end of the performance period (whichever is relevant) are not valid. These types of preliminary assessments provide an understanding of how a project is likely to perform against the criteria of a specific certification system. These can be undertaken by third parties, consultants, developers, or as part of a pre-certification process to indicate progress. However, they are not equivalent to a final certified outcome.
Refer to the Scheme Lists page for the complete list of recognized building certification schemes, which will remain eligible for the 2026 and 2027 assessments.
GRESB updated its building certification evaluation criteria in December 2024 and retired the existing criteria in June 2025. All certification schemes must meet the revised evaluation criteria to be recognized for the 2028 GRESB Standard. For more information about the scheme re-evaluation process and status, see here.
Terminology
Green building certificate
Recognition that a project has received a green building rating. A certificate indicates the name and location of the project, version of the rating system, date of certification, and level of recognition.
Green building certification for design and/or construction
Green building certificate obtained for building design, development, and structure. These building certifications affirm that individual assets were designed, developed and structured in ways that are consistent with independently developed criteria.
Green building certification for the interior
Building interior certifications obtained for interior space design such as Tenant fit-out. Interior building certifications affirm that the interior space(s) was designed and built in ways that are consistent with independently developed interior certification criteria.
Level of certification
The level achieved with successful completion of the rating scheme.
Performance period
The period during which the performance of a building is assessed to demonstrate compliance with the established criteria of a building certification.
Scheme name
The name of the certification scheme.
Sub-scheme name
A Green Building Certificate’s sub-category to a Scheme name used to certify a particular property type and/or to specify the type of building certificate (whether a Green Building Certificate is an Operational Green Building Certificate or a New Construction Green Building Certificate).
Time of construction
The period during which the asset was built.
Validation: What evidence is required?
This indicator is subject to automatic validation. No evidence is required. Refer to the page below for guidance on how to resolve automatic validation errors and warnings.
Scoring
This indicator is not currently scored and is used to inform future benchmarking considerations.
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