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Welcome to World Green Building Council’s Case Study Library. Here you can find examples of the world’s most cutting edge sustainable buildings. Each case study demonstrates outstanding performance of an operational building that complies with at least one of WorldGBC’s three strategic impact areas: Climate Action; Health, Equity & Resilience; and Resources & Circularity.

Explore the map below to find examples from across the globe!

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Net Zero Operational Carbon

Net Zero Whole Life Carbon

Health, Equity and Resilience

Resources and Circularity

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Office Building

2240 Mercury Way

Urbanización El Paraíso

12-01 12th Street

1 New Street Square

1 New Street Square

117 Easy Street

117 Easy Street

18 King Wah Road

18 King Wah Road, North Point

Hong Kong SAR, China

218 Electric Road

200-218 Electric Road, North Point

Hong Kong SAR, China

435 IndioWay

62 Kimpton Rd

62 Kimpton Road

85 Bluxome

85 Bluxome Street

945 Front Street, DPR Construction Office

945 Front Street

A zero-water discharge community

Thanisandra, Bangalore, India

Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College

Affordable Housing Project

Alpine Branch Library

1830 Alpine Boulevard

Arch | Nexus SAC Headquarters

Arlington Business Park

Arlington Business Park Theale Berkshire RG7 4SA United Kingdom

Arthaland Century Pacific Tower

5th Avenue corner 30th Street, Fort Bonifacio Global City

Ash+Ash Rainwater Capture & Reuse

Ballard Emerald Star Zero Energy Home

1749 NW 61st St.

BCCI Construction Company

1160 Battery Street, Suite 250

BCCI South Bay

150 East Dana Street

BEA 347. Oficinas Bioconstrucción

Río Mississippi 347, Col. DEl Valle, San Pedro Garza García, 66220

San Pedro Garza García

Bergen Inclusion Centre

Birch House

2930 Birchwood Ave

Bishop O’Dowd High School Environmental Science Center

9500 Stearns Ave

Booth Transport Logistics and Distribution Hub

1815 Numurkah Rd

Bürogebäude Herdweg 19

Camisas Polo Salvador

Rua do Uruguai, 151

Casa Laguna

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Casa Real

Beira, Mozambique

Center for Intelligent Buildings^TM

13995 Pasteur Boulevard

Palm Beach Gardens

Chai Wan Campus for the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi)

133 Shing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong

City Hall Freiburg

Fehrenbachallee

Construction Industry Council – Zero Carbon Park

8 Sheung Yuet Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon East,

Cooperative housing

Stavnsholthave 1-51, Farum, Denmark

Craven Gap Residence

742 Webb Cove Rd

Creating adequate, sustainable, and affordable housing through pension fund capital

Diepeveen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Design Engineers

8801 Prairie View Ln SW

Disaster resilience retrofits

Tiwi, Albay, Philippines

Discovery Elementary School

2770 S Taylor St

Double Cove Residential Development

Lok Wo Sha, Ma On Shan, New Territories

Hong Kong SAR, China

East Liberty Presbyterian Church

116 S. Highland Avenue

EchoHaven House

33 Rock Haven Green

Edificio Lucia

Paseo de Belén 19

EFdeN 4C

Bulevardul Pache Protopopescu nr. 66

El Camino Apartments

Hatch, New Mexico, United States

Elobau Logistics Centre

Unterer Auenweg 6

energy+Home1.0

Enhancing lives of refugees

Qadura refugee camp, Ramallah, Palestine

Entegrity Headquarters

1403 East 6th St.

Entrepatios Las Carolinas

c/ González Feito 19

Filiale Kirchheimbolanden

Uhlandstrasse 4

Kirchheimbolanden

Five Elements Harvest House

9498 Stein Road

Floth 69 Robertson Street, Fortitude Valley

69 Robertson Street

Fortitude Valley

Gibbons Street

Gibbons Street, Redfern, Australia

Globicon Terminals

Koproli, Uran-Raigad

Green Idea House

1556 Prospect Avenue

Habitat Lab

Via per Cesano Boscone, 4,

Hadera Alfa Kindergartens

Ha-Dudaim St 14

Highland Dr

4371 Highland Dr

HKS Chicago Living Lab

125 S. Clark Street, Suite 1100

Honda Smart Home US

IDeAs “Z Squared” Office

1084 Foxworthy Ave

Indigo Hammond + Playle Architects Net Pos Energy Office

Integral Group, Toronto

380 Wellington St W

Integral Office, Oakland

427 13th Street

IntenCity

Intencity, 160 Avenue des Martyrs

Interface Global Headquarters

1280 West Peachtree Street

Irota EcoLodge

Kossuth Lajos út 16.

Jewel City

Johannesburg, South Africa

King County Parks North Utility Maintenance Facility

6046 West Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE

King Street

Kintyre

Kintyre, Flamstead, Trowley Bottom

Knauf Insulation Experience Center

Trata 32 Škofja Loka 4260 Slovenia

Langes Haus

Lincoln Net Positive Farmhouse

Lombardo Welcome Center – Millersville University

88 James Street

Madrona Passive House

3514 E. Columbia St

Minneapolis Net Zero Victorian

2021 Harriet Ave

MNP Tower

1021 W Hastings sT

Mohawk College The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation

135 Fennell Ave W

Morningside Crossing

1808 Jancey Street

Mvule Gardens

NASA Sustainability Base

NCR Corporate Headquarters, Spring at 8th

NEX Shopping Mall

Serangoon Central, 23, Singapore 556083

Ohm Sweet Ohm

2169 St. Stephens St

Packard Foundation Headquarters

343 Second Street

Panda Passage

210 St. George's Drive NE

Petinelli Curitiba

Rua Rockefeller

Pitzer College Robert Redford Conservancy

1800 N Amherst Ave

Plantronics European Office

Scorpius 171 Hoofddorp 2132 LR The Netherlands

Rayside Labossière architectes

1215 Ontario Est

Renovating 32 terraced houses, enhancing satisfaction and comfort

Rue d’Auvergne and Rue Maurice Suard, Angers, France

Residência Loft

Al. Formosa, 32 - Tamboré 3, Alphaville

Santana de Parnaíba

Rocky Road Straw Bale | Community Rebuilds

1558 Rocky Road

Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed North American Headquarters

Salyani housing project

Bharatpur, Chitwan District, Nepal

Sede RAC Engenharia

Avenida Prefeito Erasto Gaertner,819

SEXTUPLE

Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Mexico

SFO – 1057 – AIRFIELD OPERATIONS FACILITY (AOF)

1057 North Access Road

Social housing

Kilbride Lane, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Taft Faculty House

110 Woodbury Road

Te Mirumiru Early Childhood Education Centre, Kawakawa

Te Papa peninsula

Te Papa peninsula Tauranga city, New Zealand

The Cork Haus

4417 33rd Ave S.

The Palestinian museum

Birzeit, Ramallah

The Phenix

3500 St Jacques St

The RMI Innovation Center

22830 Two Rivers Rd

Toronto Dominion Centre, Ernst and Yonge Tower

222 Bay Street, Toronto, M5J 2W4

Tour Elithis Danube

16 rue Edmond Michelet

Tour Elithis Dijon

1B Boulevard de Champagne

Trasciende La Parroquia

15 Avenida, 7-47, Zona 6, Guatemala City

UniverCity Childcare Center

8971 Cornerstone Building

University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

2220 Piedmont Ave

Wilde Lake Middle School

10481 Cross Fox Ln

Wo Lee Fabrication & Distribution Center

Lot Nos. 961-3 966-7 973-4 981-2 DD 77 Fanling, New Territories

WSP Brisbane Fitout

Fortitude Valley

Yitpi Yartapuultiku

Port Adelaide, Australia

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