The chief executive of the Green Building Council of Australia, Romilly Madew, has been appointed chair of a new committee tasked with overseeing consistent standards for global green building rating.

The World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC’s) new committee will develop an international standard for quality assurance of global green building rating tools.


“Our immediate priority is to provide guidance on the Common Carbon Metric project, which is working towards a globally-accepted and consistent methodology for measuring the carbon performance of our building stock,” Ms Madew says.


“With Australia moving towards a price on carbon, robust carbon accounting within the built environment will become increasingly critical.


“We will also be complementing the work commenced by the South African Green Building Council on socio-economic criteria for green building rating systems.”


Other nations represented on the committee include the US, UK, Japan, Singapore, South Africa and Germany.


“I’m delighted to take on the role of Chair of this new committee. Australia’s property and construction industry should take this as further evidence of our leadership role in the formation and delivery of green building rating tools,” Ms Madew says.

“Being part of this new committee enables us to continue to play an active role in the evolution of the global green building movement,”