Greening Canada’s K-12 Schools
As a program participant, you can:
• Use the online Green Building Performance System to help maximize energy, water and emissions savings in your buildings
• Benchmark actual energy and water use against comparable schools
• Engage your staff and students in the performance and progress of your buildings
• Assess the potential for LEED EB:OM certification for your buildings
• Access and contribute to performance standards, baselines and best practices for school buildings
• Make use of the Building Performance Audit to uncover conservation opportunities

For more information on CaGBC’s initiatives, pilot projects and programs, please visit www.cagbc.org.
Making Savings
Results as of December 31, 2008
numbers in ( ) are increases
  Savings 2008
(vs. 2007)
Savings Percent Savings 2008
(vs. 2006)
Savings Percent
Electricity 4,725 MWh 4.7 % 2,393 MWh 2.8 %
Demand 2 MW 1.0 % 3 MW 1.3 %
Thermal 6,907 eMWh 4.2 % 8,720 eMWh 6.3 %
Total energy 11,632 eMWh 4.3 % 11,113 eMWh 4.9 %
Water 37 10m3 7.7 % 72 10m3 14.7 %
Greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) 3,195 tonnes 3,164 tonnes
Energy Cost Savings $ 706,092 $ 534,158
Not all participant buildings are reporting in all years or in all categories. Savings are reported on a net basis.
What's new?
Using the system, you can view total carbon emissions for your organization and for each your participating buildings. Go to Benchmark report and select Data type: GHG equivalent, Units: tonnes.
GREEN UP: Canada's Building Performance Program for K-12 Schools has been launched for 2009.  For information on joining, please contact Monique Goguen at GREENUP@cagbc.org.
Participants
Ontario Number of boards: 10 Number of buildings: 98
British Columbia Number of boards: 5 Number of buildings: 50
Alberta Number of boards: 4 Number of buildings: 40
Newfoundland and Labrador Number of boards: 3 Number of buildings: 30
Nova Scotia Number of boards: 1 Number of buildings: 10
Saskatchewan Number of boards: 10 Number of buildings: 98
Yukon Number of boards: 1 Number of buildings: 3
Total number of boards: 34 Total number of buildings: 329