International. Recent research conducted in collaboration between the National Research Council of Canada (CNRC) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) found that green buildings have a positive impact on the productivity of the employees who work in them.
The research determined the human resources benefits of building green by analyzing anonymized data on more than 40,000 RBC employees against information on more than 70 RBC office buildings. The results showed that overall, green buildings have statistically higher job satisfaction, higher employee engagement and organizational engagement, and higher performance evaluated by management.
"Organizations that inhabit or own buildings that seek to meet green certification standards, such as LEED, typically use environmental impact and energy cost-saving benefits to justify certification," said Richard Tremblay, general manager of the NRC's Construction portfolio. in a press release. "Now, the NRC and RBC have developed objective methods to support the case for green buildings to improve job satisfaction and improve productivity-related indicators."
This research is just one of the NRC's initiatives to create a greener future through innovation. The NRC was selected for this collaboration because of its technical knowledge of high-performance buildings, as well as its unbiased analysis of more than 120 million RBC records.
