Green building standards compliance in Quezon City

An ordinance from Quezon City Government making it mandatory for buildings built post-2011 to comply with green building standards, which mandates the use of eco-friendly technology and system in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance including the retrofitting, of building projects in the city. The ordinance is complemented by an incentive in the form of tax credits for the land users, developers, and planners who incorporate, implement, install, and actually use environment friendly technologies that promote a string biodiversity, improve the state of health of the population and abate the continuing destruction of ecosystem, ground water and air quality in their building project.