OPEN is a social enterprise and collaboration platform with over 10 years experience building innovative software solutions for accelerating the impact of high performance buildings.

The official Canadian version of the Standard Energy Efficiency Data Platform™ (SEED Platform)

A public science demonstration that invites the public to discover the benefits of high-performance buildings.

Visually explore a range of design options to assess their impacts on building performance.

In late 2016 OGBS identified a resource that all Canadian companies working on LEED buildings will need to help facilitate their work, that being template specifications for LEED-NC v4. Rather than each company privately funding and developing their own version, the question was asked of the community, "why not crowd-fund and crowd-edit this series of documents, and then give it away for free?" This approach is more cost-effective, increases quality and standardization (since many more people are contributing), and contributes to the greater good by giving the final product away.

8 separate competing firms across Canada agreed to cooperate to make this happen, and now you can freely download a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licensed LEED-NC v4, front-end specifications for Canadian projects. This is v1.0, so please share back any improvements you make so that we can compile them into the next version.

Imagine what else could be crowd-sourced and crowd-funded?

A simple, inexpensive, yet comprehensive open-source POE template for multi-unit residential buildings in BC.

Launched in 2009, LEED Monkey provides online access to all Canadian LEED content with a forum per credit/CIR to share best practices, challenges, and lessons learned.

Learn about green buildings near you and around the world using this free mobile app.

The Green Building Brain is an open-source database of user-generated green building and planning resources. More than just a content repository, the Green Building Brain is an integrated system for generating and aggregating content, indexing that content, peer-reviewing, discussing it, revising it, and publishing it through a range of different channels. It is a tool for producing and sharing knowledge within the green building community.