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Bris2032 is set to be the greenest Olympic Games to date.
Contracting for 2032 Olympics
Global GreenTag CEO, David Baggs.
GLOBAL GREENTAG HAS announced its read- iness to help Australian companies go for not only gold but also platinum to help create new green building projects for the next Olympics Games in Brisbane in 2032.
“With over 16,000 products now under certifi- cation, we are poised alongside the Green Build- ing Council of Australia’s (GBCA) and Brisbane 2032 organisers’ vision to break new records for integrating sustainable products into the new generation of sustainable property.”
Building programs for the Brisbane Olympics will target 6 Green Stars and a Net Carbon Zero future.
Baggs said Global GreenTag and its Green Star recognised certified products will be there to support every project.
He said Global GreenTag’s certified products represent over 150 world leading sustainable manufacturers under licence with its certification and declaration programs, most of which have been designed specifically for the building indus- tries to use on projects to align with requirements laid down by the leading green building programs such as Green Star, WELL and LEED.
Global GreenTag assessors currently rank products and materials for building projects us- ing both the certifier’s GreenRate certification program and its flagship program LCARate - a comparative Life Cycle Assessment system that ranks products for its whole of life cycle impact on the environment with either a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum rating.
The system was the first of its kind in the world and remains unique today.
“Our vision is to provide certification pro- grams that are continuously evolving and which influence product manufacturers and building professionals to develop not just better
solutions but aspire to use the best for our envi- ronment,” he said.
Global GreenTag demands 100 per cent trans- parency from all manufacturers who submit their products for certification or to one of the company’s rigorous declaration programs, like the GreenTag EPD (Environmental Product Declaration), PHD (Product Health Declaration) and its Modern Slavery Declaration for products (the GreenTag MSD).
“OUR INVESTIGATIONS OF SUPPLY CHAINS ARE RIGOROUS.”
“Across all of our programs, our investigations of supply chains are rigorous. We look for any signs of environmental impacts and to information, which may suggest that incidents of Modern Slavery are occurring; we cover all corners,” Baggs said.
GreenTag product health assessments, via their PHD program, examine the toxicology of products for their ingredients.
For the benefit of architects, designers, speci- fiers and procurement teams, the company also provides a HealthRATE scheme, which ranks the ‘healthiness in use’ of each product from Bronze to Silver to Gold and finally to Platinum, the highest ranking for any product and therefore the healthiest product to be using.
The Brisbane-based certification company also reveals it has new and more robust certifica- tion and declaration programs in development to ensure that building projects for Brisbane 2032 will be able to access products and materials that are healthier and more manufactured too.
The roots of the Global GreenTag Product Cer- tification Standard go back to the Sydney 2000 Olympics and its success as the first green built Olympics in history.
GreenTag’s co-founder, program director and CEO David Baggs was the Sustainability, Materi- als and Energy Consultant for 10 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic ‘Green Games’ venues and GreenTag grew out of that process.
Responding to the recent announcement that Brisbane had won the bid to stage the next Olym- pics in 2032, Baggs said there will plenty of op- portunities for Australian companies.
“It is like coming full circle. Global GreenTag evolved out of the work done during the Green Sydney Olympics in 2000 to meet the needs of the emerging green building design teams who were seeking reliable product information that was otherwise unobtainable at the time,” he said.
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