Singapore Green Building Product Certification
About the Certification
The Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC)’s Green Building Product Certification Scheme, was launched on 14 September 2010 as a key initiative to support the building industry in the drive towards sustainability and environment- friendly built environment.
The Certification is the 1st dedicated green building product certification scheme to support the BCA Green Mark Scheme.
It is a Scheme with criteria formulated by more than 90 building professionals, assesses the level of environmental friendliness of building products in areas of safety, health, performance efficiency and environmental protection.
The certification will provide consumers, building industry stakeholders, and government procurement system an excellent listing of robustly assessed and certified green building products.
Objective
SGBC’s Singapore Green Building Product Certification provides a meaningful differentiation of safer, healthier, efficient and sustainable products for the building industry. The Certification certifies building products that are resource efficient, have potentially better efficiency and lower environmental impact, provide better indoor environmental quality for a healthy, productive workplace in buildings.
Criteria for the Certification
The Certification adopts and makes reference to international standards and well established global ecolabelling and certification schemes. The Certification adopts the multi criteria and where feasible life cycle approach in its assessment criteria.
The Certification seeks to encourage manufactures to improve product development and strive for greener innovation in products by adopting grading system to accord higher grading for greener products and to set direction for continual improvement.
