EDGE Certification in Girasoles III

Summary

Location: Mexico

Project type: Residential

Certification achieved: EDGE Standard

Certification status: Final Certificate

Project description

Girasoles III is a residential development located in Mexico that achieved EDGE Standard certification with a Final Certificate. It builds on Girasoles II, also EDGE-certified, consolidating a housing model that integrates resource efficiency as part of its offering.

EDGE Standard is the base level of the EDGE system (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies), created by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. It requires minimum savings of 20% in energy, water, and embodied carbon in materials compared with an equivalent conventional building in the same location. The Final Certificate is issued once construction is complete, after an on-site audit verifies that the efficiency measures planned at the design stage were actually implemented.

What makes this project innovative?

Girasoles III stands out for far exceeding the EDGE minimums in water and materials: it achieves 44.42% water savings, more than double the requirement, and a 64% reduction in embodied carbon in materials, more than three times the standard's threshold.

The project stands out for:

Doubling the minimum water savings required by EDGE, a direct benefit for residents in an increasingly critical resource.
Tripling the threshold for reducing embodied carbon in materials.
Replicating and improving the certification strategy of an earlier phase of the same development.
Holding a Final Certificate, confirming that the measures were implemented on site.