Green Building Standards
Mosa Cradle to Cradle Certified® products also contribute to many leading international Green Building Standards including BREEAM, DGNB, HQE, LEED, and WELL.
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How Mosa products contribute to BREEAM NL
BREEAM-NL 2014v2.0 recognizes Cradle to Cradle Certified products:
Building materials
- MAT1 – evidence-based lower environmental impact with Cradle to Cradle Certified products (1 point)
Known (substantiated) origin of materials
- MAT5 - stimulate the use of materials with a known origin such as Cradle to Cradle Certified (1 – 2 points)
The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method is a holistic framework for specifying and measuring the sustainability performance of buildings and infrastructure. To ensure buildings deliver optimal sustainability performance now and into the future, BREEAM uses recognized benchmarks to evaluate a building’s specification, design, construction across a range of high impact measures including carbon emissions, low-impact design, climate change adaptation, ecological value, and biodiversity protection.
BREEAM labeled Mosa references
Booking.com headquarters
UN Studio
lead interior architect: HofmanDujardin
design floor pattern: Linehouse
Amsterdam, Netherlands
How Mosa products contribute to DGNB
Mosa products can contribute to DGNB via the following criteria:
- ENV 1.1 Building life cycle assessment*
- ENV 1.2 Local environmental impact
- ENV 1.3 Sustainable resource extraction
- ENV 2.2 Potable water demand and waste water volume*
- ECO 1.1 Life cycle cost*
- ECO 2.1 Flexibility and adaptability
- SOC 1.2 Indoor air quality
* Including circular economy bonus.
Administered by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB certification is a planning and optimisation tool for assessing sustainable buildings, interiors, and districts. Based on a holistic approach to sustainability that equally considers the environment, people, and economic efficiency, DGNB certification promotes locally adaptive climate- and culture-friendly building methods to increase real sustainability in construction projects. More than 10,000 projects across 30 countries have achieved DGNB certification.
Mosa’s Cradle to Cradle Certified® Gold products can help you achieve DGNB certification.
DGNB labeled Mosa references
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Henning Larsen Architects
Frankfurt, Germany
How Mosa products can help achieve HQE
Mosa products can be used to support the following HQE objectives:
- Well-Being: indoor air quality, thermal, acoustic, and visual comfort, sustainable transportation, and services available in the building and in its surroundings.
- Environment: energy and water consumption, waste management, low-carbon design, and biodiversity.
- Economy: life cycle costing and the development of local stakeholders.
- Project Management: building adaptability, responsible job site practices, commissioning, and green leases for occupiers.
Haute Qualité Environnementale takes a multi-theme, multi-criteria approach to ensuring buildings, districts and infrastructure are designed and constructed in ways that balance respect for the environment, quality of life, and economic performance. HQE certification levels go from HQE Performant to HQE Exceptional.
How Mosa products help you achieve LEED
Mosa products can help achieve LEED certification by contributing to a variety of LEED credits.
- Indoor air quality
- EQ Credit: Low Emitting Materials
- Sustainable sites
- Heat Island Reduction – Non Roof
- Materials and resources
- MR Credit: Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Material Ingredients
Option 1: Material Ingredient Reporting;
Option 2: Material Ingredient Optimization;
- MR Credit: Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Environmental Product Declarations
Option 1: EPD;
- Material Sourcing – Recycled Content
- Option 2: Recycled Content;
- MR Credit: Interiors Life Cycle Impact Reduction
Option 3: At least 50% of non-structural materials are reusable or recyclable.
- MR Credit: Building Product Disclosure and Optimization – Material Ingredients
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is the most widely used green building certification program. A globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement, LEED provides a framework for healthy, efficient, cost-saving green buildings. There are more than 197,000 LEED projects across 186 countries and territories.
LEED labeled Mosa references
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
KPMB Architects
Evanston, Illinois, United States
How Mosa products help you meet the WELL building standard
WELL recognizes Mosa products via three optimization credits:
- WELL Feature 26, AIR 26 Enhanced material safety: Cradle to Cradle Certified® Material Health with a V3 Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum Material Health Score.
- WELL Feature 97, Option C, which accepts 'any method in USGBC's LEED v4 MR credit: Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Material Ingredients, Option 1: material ingredient reporting,' which includes Cradle to Cradle Certified® Silver or Gold.
- WELL AIR 04, VOC reduction.
The WELL Building Standard takes a holistic approach to putting human health and wellness at the centre of design. Built around medical research and the knowledge that we spend 90% of our time indoors, WELL Certified® is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being, including air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind.
