B Impact Report

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Paul de Ruiter Architects

Architectural Design
Certified Since: February, 2016
Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

82.3

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

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Sustainable design is part of Paul de Ruiter office's DNA. Buildings are designed to respond intelligently to sunlight, maximizing energy gain and storage. These features distinguish the architecture practice as unique, recognizable and innovative. Paul de Ruiter Architects capitalizes on local conditions and climate in a way that is both logical and explainable. They aim to measure their sustainability and contribute to the development of building certification methods. As record-holders with the highest scores in the Netherlands for BREEAM, LEED, GPR and GreenCalc+, the office ensures that its own buildings meet the highest, proven standards of sustainability.

Paul de Ruiter Architects takes its inspiration from the body of ideas expressed in the PhD research by Paul de Ruiter, “The Chameleon Skin” from 1992. He argued that buildings should produce rather than consume energy. Paul de Ruiter's architecture generates energy in technical terms, but also for the people working and living within them. Their buildings value happiness and inspiration, and they have found that daylight optimization fosters intelligence and sustainability. Thus, the company designs buildings with a pleasant indoor climate in which health, interaction and human communication take centre stage.

Best for the World Honoreeinfo_outline

linkBest for Changemaker 2019

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.