The LCBI label accounts for the entire life cycle of a building and measures emissions across three distinct categories of carbon emissions. Its methodology thereby accounts for embodied carbon released by building materials, operational carbon related to building use and activity, and biogenic carbon, temporarily stored within a building’s bio-structure.

Each criterion receives a score, and projects are then certified at one of three increasingly rigorous levels (Standard, Performance, or Excellence) based on the emissions reductions achieved. The methodology is applicable to various building typologies, including office, hotel, and multi-family residential. It provides a thorough and scalable approach to carbon accounting in buildings.

The LCBI label can therefore harmonizes practices and sets clear pathways based on quantitative targets on an international scale. Currently, the label is available in 8 countries : Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.

The LCBI certification process supports projects throughout their development by conducting audits at each key stage. This approach ensures adaptability and flexibility by enabling applicants to adjust all through the certification process.

At the end of the technical design phase, an independent certification body may conduct a first audit and grant interim certification. This first step is discretionary, though allows for applicants to assess their final design and make relevant modification prior to the project’s construction.

Upon project completion, a second audit is carried out to confirm that all certification requirements have been met and grant the final LCBI label. The final audit may be engaged at any step of the project’s lifecycle.

Finally, applicants may, if they wish, conduct a final analysis of operations in the 5 years following certification. This ensures pursued operational performance and continued compliance to LCBI standards.

Bureau Veritas

With more than 82,000 employees located in nearly 1,600 offices and laboratories around the globe Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, it now helps its 400,000 clients improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.

Bureau Veritas upholds the guiding principes of a Business to Society model, and in leveraging its expertise, drives positive transformations in each of the 140 countries in which it operates. Its commitment to sustainability is engraved in the projects it leads ; in the real estate sector, it helps developers, investors, and asset managers align their projects with the highest environmental standards of low-carbon practices. In France, its 8500 experts lead nationwide developments, and bureau veritas currently stands as principal certifier of the LCBI label alongside CERTIVEA.

Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the CAC 40 ESG, CAC Next 20 and SBF 120 indices. Compartment A, ISIN code FR 0006174348, stock symbol: BVI.

CERTIVEA

Subsidiary of the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CTSB), CERTIVEA enables its clients to enhance the value, sustainability, and appeal of their operations. By positioning clients to capitalize on key transitions in climate, energy, technology and green finance, it mitigates their risk of obsolescence by guiding them towards strategic and long-term allocation. CERTIVEA assists enterprises with its set of solutions that cover multi-thematic HQE (High Environmental Quality) certification, and in developing specialized labels. The labels are targeted in three specific realms, in the environment (energy, climate, biodiversity), quality of life (health and well-being), and in digital technologies.

Regarding the LCBI, CERTIVEA acts as principal certifier, and relying on the label’s methodology, conducts independent assessments grounded in LCBI reference frameworks. CERTIVEA stands as an industry leader in France, though operates around the globe with 6836 operations led in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and America.