PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- (September 12, 2012) - Earth Advantage Institute (EAI) www.earthadvantage.org, a nonprofit sustainable building organization, has launched its Earth Advantage® Commercial (EAC) green building certification program. The program is based on three levels of certification: Platinum, Gold, and Silver. The measures are cumulative and prescriptive, allowing for a greatly simplified certification process, which EAI's pilot program found to be missing in the market segment. Developers, architects, engineers, green building consultants, and builders welcome a prescriptive, simplified, and cost effective pathway to certification for commercial buildings smaller than 100,000 square feet. These professionals note that the absence of such a certification option is a strong deterrent against certifying smaller buildings.
