A reference guide to the standards LeafTracker measures against.

Operational performance, in real life. NABERS reads twelve months of metered data across energy, water, waste, and indoor environment quality, then rates the building on what it actually did, not what the architect promised.

Most green ratings reward a good design document. NABERS rewards a building that performs in the wild. That distinction is why government tenants, super funds, and large lessees treat the score as procurement-grade evidence.

How a building treats the people inside it. Ten concepts: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind, and Community. Each concept has preconditions you must meet, plus optional optimisations that earn points toward a tier.

When companies compete for talent, the building they ask people to come back to becomes part of the offer. WELL makes that offer measurable, third-party verified, and difficult to fake.

Singapore's national green building rating, aligned to the Green Building Masterplan 2030. The 2021 edition runs five sections (Health & Wellbeing, Whole Life Carbon, Resilience, Intelligence, Maintainability), worth fifteen points each, for a maximum of seventy-five.

Above a certain gross floor area, Green Mark is mandatory for new buildings in Singapore. The 2021 refresh moves the conversation past pure energy efficiency toward whole-life carbon, and the Energy Efficiency prerequisite means no project can buy its way to a tier on points alone.

Most water certifications ask whether your site is using less. AWS asks whether the source your whole region depends on is staying healthy. The site has to map its water flows, prove it isn't depleting or polluting the catchment, and engage with farmers, communities, and businesses sharing the same river or aquifer.

A factory can halve its water use and still be part of a regional crisis if the river it draws from is collapsing. AWS is one of the few certifications that takes the shared-resource problem seriously, which is why multinationals managing supply chain water risk increasingly require it.

One of Asia's longest-running eco-labelling programmes. A Type 1 Ecolabel under ISO 14024, SGLS certifies products on multi-criteria environmental performance across the full lifecycle, from raw material extraction through manufacturing, use, and end-of-life disposal.

SGLS gives procurement officers and shoppers an independently verified shorthand for greener choices. It is recognised in Singapore government green procurement frameworks and used widely toward green building points.