Bridgestone awarded LEED Gold certification for B-Innovation center in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan – Bridgestone Corporation announced that B-Innovation, an innovation center located within Bridgestone Innovation Park (Kodaira City, Tokyo) has been awarded LEED® GOLD certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This is the fifth Bridgestone Group base in the world to receive LEED GOLD certification and the first in Japan. Based on its corporate commitment, “Bridgestone E8 Commitment”, the Bridgestone Group will accelerate innovation of its technologies, business models, and designs through co-creation at the B-Innovation. The Group thereby will continue to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, together with employees, society, its partners, and customers.

The LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system is a program for assessing the environmental performance of buildings and urban environments developed and operated by the USGBC, a U.S. NPO, with certification screening performed by Green Business Certification Inc. As the world’s most widely used green building assessment system, LEED certifies buildings and urban environments deemed to promote the use of renewable energy or to be built with sufficient concern for the health of people and the environment with regard to their design, construction, and maintenance and operation methods. Certified buildings are rated either CERTIFIED, SILVER, GOLD, or PLATINUM based on their scores. Only around 10% of structures submitted for assessment receive LEED Gold certification (based on figures from 2021, slightly over 10% when including Platinum certification),*3 a fact that underscores the high level of environmental performance at B-Innovation.

Bridgestone has started full-scale operation at Bridgestone Innovation Park in April 2022. B-Innovation is a central facility of this innovation park, and contains the place where can give rise to new ideas by engaging with Bridgestone core technologies and products, prototyping studio where people can give shape to the ideas and co-creative spaces open to external partners. The building is designed to preserve surrounding environment and consider the health of people and the environment　from the design phase. The acquisition of LEED GOLD certification represents an objective assessment of these provisions.　The following features of B-Innovation earned it Gold certification in this program.