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What is the BOMA BESt certification?

It is here the BOMA BESt certification, BESt meaning Building Environmental Standards. Let us recall before going further that BOMA is the acronym of Building Owners and Managers Association. This association of which the acronym almost became a common name in the world of commercial real estate originated in 1907 in the United States and its implementation in Montreal goes back to 1927.

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For owners, managers, occupants, appraisers, renting firms, etc. working in the market of office buildings, BOMA is indeed synonymous of the normalized method to measure the surface of the premises in office buildings. This standard BOMA has truly become the reference everywhere in the United States and in Canada.

This will to provide proven measuring instruments to the market of office buildings has led BOMA to take an interest in questions of energy efficiency and environmental management of these immovable properties.

These new concerns, but in tune with questions that could meet the real estate market, has led to the establishment of the program BOMA BESt, a national program launched in 1995 to answer the needs of the industry regarding realistic standards relative to energy and environmental performances of existing immovable properties by relying on information accurate and independently verified.

BOMA BESt is today a program which includes common standards, various tools of online evaluation and of education, independent verifications of data and a four levels certification.

BOMA BEStcertification takes an interest in the following six aspects of environmental performance and management of office buildings, it is about the use of energy, water management, waste reduction, control of emissions of waste water, indoor environment and system of environmental management.

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