EDGE

EDGE is a green building certification system focused on making buildings more resource-efficient.

An innovation of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, EDGE empowers emerging markets to scale up resource-efficient buildings in a fast, easy, and affordable way.

EDGE enables developers and builders to quickly identify the most cost-effective strategies to reduce energy use, water use and embodied carbon in materials. The strategies that are integrated into the project design are verified by an EDGE Auditor and certified by GBCI. GBCI administers EDGE certification in most countries around the world.

Logo

The EDGE Logo consists of a sans serif typeface, a stylized “d” triangular grid, and the spelled-out acronym “Excellence In Design For Greater Efficiencies.” The EDGE Logo must not be redesigned in any way. It must not be distorted or modified, and it must always be shown whole and never reproduced partially.

Colors

The EDGE Logo consists of a specific set of colors, blue and green, that are specified on the right. These two colors are the Primary Color Palette of EDGE. The Secondary Color Palette can be introduced when additional colors are needed for graphics, charts and call-outs, but it must not be used without the primary colors being dominant. The EDGE Logo may not be recolored using the secondary palette.

Primary Colors